From: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156 upstream. If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp(). Fixes: c8806b6c9e82 ("snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA") Signed-off-by: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Narsimhulu Musini <nmusini@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801111421.63651-1-wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ snic_tgt_create(struct snic *snic, struc "Snic Tgt: device_add, with err = %d\n", ret); + put_device(&tgt->dev); put_device(&snic->shost->shost_gendev); spin_lock_irqsave(snic->shost->host_lock, flags); list_del(&tgt->list);