From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422811AbWJRUJL (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:09:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422807AbWJRUJL (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:09:11 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:5554 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422809AbWJRUJJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:09:09 -0400 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Duncan Sands , Duncan Sands , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [PATCH 2/16] Driver core: plug device probe memory leak Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:08:53 -0700 Message-Id: <11612021503109-git-send-email-greg@kroah.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.4.2.4 In-Reply-To: <1161202147758-git-send-email-greg@kroah.com> References: <20061018195833.GA21808@kroah.com> <1161202147758-git-send-email-greg@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Duncan Sands Make sure data is freed if the kthread fails to start. Signed-off-by: Duncan Sands Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index b5f43c3..ef7db69 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int driver_probe_device(struct device_dr probe_task = kthread_run(really_probe, data, "probe-%s", dev->bus_id); if (IS_ERR(probe_task)) - ret = PTR_ERR(probe_task); + ret = really_probe(data); } else ret = really_probe(data); -- 1.4.2.4