[PATCH] stm class: fix device leak in open error path

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Tue Nov 01 2016 - 06:46:16 EST


Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() also on
allocation errors in open().

Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for...")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
index 51f81d64ca37..47811f5c9bc9 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -368,8 +368,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
return -ENODEV;

stmf = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmf), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!stmf)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!stmf) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_put_device;
+ }

stm_output_init(&stmf->output);
stmf->stm = to_stm_device(dev);
@@ -382,9 +384,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
return nonseekable_open(inode, file);

err_free:
+ kfree(stmf);
+err_put_device:
/* matches class_find_device() above */
put_device(dev);
- kfree(stmf);

return err;
}
--
2.7.3