The driver do not handle the possible returning error of dev_set_name, if it returned fail, some operations should be rollback or there may be possible memory leak. We use put_device to free the device and use kfree to free the memory in the error handle path. Fixes: 71610f55fa4d ("[SCSI] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()") Signed-off-by: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Add put_device(parent) in the error path. --- drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c index aa13feb17c62..de7e503bfcab 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c @@ -509,7 +509,14 @@ static struct scsi_target *scsi_alloc_target(struct device *parent, device_initialize(dev); kref_init(&starget->reap_ref); dev->parent = get_device(parent); - dev_set_name(dev, "target%d:%d:%d", shost->host_no, channel, id); + error = dev_set_name(dev, "target%d:%d:%d", shost->host_no, channel, id); + if (error) { + dev_err(dev, "%s: dev_set_name failed, error %d\n", __func__, error); + put_device(parent); + put_device(dev); + kfree(starget); + return NULL; + } dev->bus = &scsi_bus_type; dev->type = &scsi_target_type; scsi_enable_async_suspend(dev); -- 2.17.1