Kmemleak reports issues for serial8250 ports after the hardware specific driver takes over on boot as noted by Tomi. The kerneldoc for device_initialize() says we must call device_put() after calling device_initialize(). We are calling device_put() on the error path, but are missing it from the device remove path. This causes release() to never get called for the devices on remove. Let's add the missing put_device() calls for both serial ctrl and port devices. Fixes: 84a9582fd203 ("serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to enable runtime PM") Reported-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ void serial_base_ctrl_device_remove(struct serial_ctrl_device *ctrl_dev) return; device_del(&ctrl_dev->dev); + put_device(&ctrl_dev->dev); } struct serial_ctrl_device *serial_base_ctrl_add(struct uart_port *port, @@ -174,6 +175,7 @@ void serial_base_port_device_remove(struct serial_port_device *port_dev) return; device_del(&port_dev->dev); + put_device(&port_dev->dev); } static int serial_base_init(void) -- 2.41.0