From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 604faf9a2ecd1addcc0c10a47e5aaef3c4d4fd6b upstream. If the second iio_device_register_sysfs_group() fails, 'legacy_buffer_group.attrs' need be freed too or it will cause memory leak: unreferenced object 0xffff888003618280 (size 64): comm "xrun", pid 357, jiffies 4294907259 (age 22.296s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 f6 8c 03 80 88 ff ff 80 fb 8c 03 80 88 ff ff ................ 00 f9 8c 03 80 88 ff ff 80 fc 8c 03 80 88 ff ff ................ backtrace: [<00000000076bfd43>] __kmalloc+0x1a3/0x2f0 [<00000000c32e4886>] iio_buffers_alloc_sysfs_and_mask+0xc31/0x1290 [industrialio] Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: d9a625744ed0 ("iio: core: merge buffer/ & scan_elements/ attributes") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211013144242.1685060-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c @@ -1367,10 +1367,10 @@ static int iio_buffer_register_legacy_sy return 0; -error_free_buffer_attrs: - kfree(iio_dev_opaque->legacy_buffer_group.attrs); error_free_scan_el_attrs: kfree(iio_dev_opaque->legacy_scan_el_group.attrs); +error_free_buffer_attrs: + kfree(iio_dev_opaque->legacy_buffer_group.attrs); return ret; }