The use of kfree(serial) in error cases of usb_serial_probe was invalid - usb_serial structure allocated in create_serial() gets reference of usb_device that needs to be put, so we need to use usb_serial_put() instead of simple kfree(). Signed-off-by: Jan Safrata <jan.nikitenko@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c index 584f23c..391c30e 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, if (retval) { dbg("sub driver rejected device"); - kfree(serial); + usb_serial_put(serial); module_put(type->driver.owner); return retval; } @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, */ if (num_bulk_in == 0 || num_bulk_out == 0) { dev_info(&interface->dev, "PL-2303 hack: descriptors matched but endpoints did not\n"); - kfree(serial); + usb_serial_put(serial); module_put(type->driver.owner); return -ENODEV; } @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, if (num_ports == 0) { dev_err(&interface->dev, "Generic device with no bulk out, not allowed.\n"); - kfree(serial); + usb_serial_put(serial); module_put(type->driver.owner); return -EIO; } -- 1.7.8.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html