[PATCH] drivers/platform/x86: Fix memory leak

From: Andre Bartke
Date: Fri Jun 03 2011 - 14:57:40 EST


data is not freed in the error case of
compal_probe().

Signed-off-by: Andre Bartke <andre.bartke@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c
index 3f204fd..8877b83 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c
@@ -1030,8 +1030,10 @@ static int __devinit compal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
initialize_fan_control_data(data);

err = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &compal_attribute_group);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(data);
return err;
+ }

data->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register(&pdev->dev);
if (IS_ERR(data->hwmon_dev)) {
--
1.7.5.2

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