We'll leak the memory allocated to 'data' in drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c::compal_probe() if sysfs_create_group() doesn't return 0. Fix the leak by freeing the memory in that case. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- compal-laptop.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Compile tested only. diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c index 3f204fd..8877b83 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c @@ -1030,8 +1030,10 @@ static int __devinit compal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) initialize_fan_control_data(data); err = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &compal_attribute_group); - if (err) + if (err) { + kfree(data); return err; + } data->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register(&pdev->dev); if (IS_ERR(data->hwmon_dev)) { -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html