If devm_request_irq fails, the code does not cleanup many things that were setup before. Instead of directly returning ret we should jump to err. Fixes: fef4f600319e ("serial: 8250: omap: Fix life cycle issues for interrupt handlers") Signed-off-by: Markus Schneider-Pargmann <msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c index 02d4f3073696..01d430de9c64 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c @@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ static int omap8250_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, up.port.irq, omap8250_irq, 0, dev_name(&pdev->dev), priv); if (ret < 0) - return ret; + goto err; priv->wakeirq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 1); -- 2.45.2