From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx> commit 4d8be4bc94f74bb7d096e1c2e44457b530d5a170 upstream. kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Previous commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem. Fixes: 158c998ea44b ("ACPI / CPPC: add sysfs support to compute delivered performance") Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx> Cc: 4.10+ <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.10+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c @@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ int acpi_cppc_processor_probe(struct acp "acpi_cppc"); if (ret) { per_cpu(cpc_desc_ptr, pr->id) = NULL; + kobject_put(&cpc_ptr->kobj); goto out_free; }