Calling release_attributes_data() while holding the "wmi_priv.mutex" will lead to a dead lock. The other problem is that if kzalloc() fails then this should return -ENOMEM but currently it returns success. Fixes: e8a60aa7404b ("platform/x86: Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The "platform/x86: Introduce support ... " commit doesn't use the patch prefix which the driver will use going forward. That means that whoever fixes the first bug has to pick the patch prefix and sometimes people are not happy with that. drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c index 3842575a6c18..055556d5c70d 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c @@ -443,8 +443,10 @@ static int init_bios_attributes(int attr_type, const char *guid) /* build attribute */ attr_name_kobj = kzalloc(sizeof(*attr_name_kobj), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!attr_name_kobj) + if (!attr_name_kobj) { + retval = -ENOMEM; goto err_attr_init; + } attr_name_kobj->kset = tmp_set; @@ -486,13 +488,13 @@ static int init_bios_attributes(int attr_type, const char *guid) elements = obj ? obj->package.elements : NULL; } - goto out; + mutex_unlock(&wmi_priv.mutex); + return 0; err_attr_init: + mutex_unlock(&wmi_priv.mutex); release_attributes_data(); kfree(obj); -out: - mutex_unlock(&wmi_priv.mutex); return retval; } -- 2.28.0