[PATCH] drivers/thermal: fix potential memleak in error branch

From: Bernard Zhao
Date: Sun Nov 01 2020 - 21:12:16 EST


Function __thermal_cooling_device_register, when device_register
failed, cdev is not free after error value return, this may
bring in potential memleak.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Zhao <bernard@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
index 3d1e0033bf3e..e4bee15dfa1f 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -1125,6 +1125,7 @@ __thermal_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np,
if (result) {
ida_simple_remove(&thermal_cdev_ida, cdev->id);
put_device(&cdev->device);
+ kfree(cdev);
return ERR_PTR(result);
}

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2.29.0