From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 7ad28e0df7ee9dbcb793bb88dd81d4d22bb9a10e upstream. If initialization fails, e.g. because the connection failed, we leak the 'vu_dev'. Fix that. Reported by smatch. Fixes: 5d38f324993f ("um: drivers: Add virtio vhost-user driver") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c @@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ static int virtio_uml_probe(struct platf rc = os_connect_socket(pdata->socket_path); } while (rc == -EINTR); if (rc < 0) - return rc; + goto error_free; vu_dev->sock = rc; spin_lock_init(&vu_dev->sock_lock); @@ -1160,6 +1160,8 @@ static int virtio_uml_probe(struct platf error_init: os_close_file(vu_dev->sock); +error_free: + kfree(vu_dev); return rc; }