From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755981AbbFOOhU (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:37:20 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:36277 "EHLO mail-pd0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755633AbbFOOgD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:36:03 -0400 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sudip Mukherjee Subject: [PATCH 2/3] parport: fix memory leak Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:05:50 +0530 Message-Id: <1434378951-32467-2-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1434378951-32467-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> References: <1434378951-32467-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org After the reference count becomes 0 when put_device() is called, it will execute the release callback where we are freeing all the allocated memory associated with the device. We missed freeing par_dev->state. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee --- drivers/parport/share.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c index d8079e3..1efec44 100644 --- a/drivers/parport/share.c +++ b/drivers/parport/share.c @@ -816,6 +816,7 @@ static void free_pardevice(struct device *dev) struct pardevice *par_dev = to_pardevice(dev); kfree(par_dev->name); + kfree(par_dev->state); kfree(par_dev); } -- 1.8.1.2