The author meant to free the variable that was just allocated, instead of the one that failed to be allocated, but made a simple typo. This patch rectifies that. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/padata.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c index 05316c9f32da..1faa7d62d87d 100644 --- a/kernel/padata.c +++ b/kernel/padata.c @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int padata_setup_cpumasks(struct parallel_data *pd, cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.pcpu, pcpumask, cpu_online_mask); if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&pd->cpumask.cbcpu, GFP_KERNEL)) { - free_cpumask_var(pd->cpumask.cbcpu); + free_cpumask_var(pd->cpumask.pcpu); return -ENOMEM; } -- 2.12.2