From: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@xxxxxxxxx> commit 4aa7afb0ee20a97fbf0c5bab3df028d5fb85fdab upstream. In the impelementation of __ipmi_bmc_register() the allocated memory for bmc should be released in case ida_simple_get() fails. Fixes: 68e7e50f195f ("ipmi: Don't use BMC product/dev ids in the BMC name") Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@xxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20191021200649.1511-1-navid.emamdoost@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -2965,8 +2965,11 @@ static int __ipmi_bmc_register(struct ip bmc->pdev.name = "ipmi_bmc"; rv = ida_simple_get(&ipmi_bmc_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); - if (rv < 0) + if (rv < 0) { + kfree(bmc); goto out; + } + bmc->pdev.dev.driver = &ipmidriver.driver; bmc->pdev.id = rv; bmc->pdev.dev.release = release_bmc_device;