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 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c @@ -793,8 +793,10 @@ int acpi_cppc_processor_probe(struct acp ret = kobject_init_and_add(&cpc_ptr->kobj, &cppc_ktype, &cpu_dev->kobj, "acpi_cppc"); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kobject_put(&cpc_ptr->kobj); goto out_free; + } kfree(output.pointer); return 0;