According to the documentation of function kobject_init_and_add(), when this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Fixes: 925a1da7477f ("firmware: Break out system_event_log in dmi-sysfs") Signed-off-by: James Bond <jameslouiseb...@gmail.com> --- drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c index 8b8127fa8955..848b6a0f94eb 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c @@ -457,8 +457,10 @@ static int dmi_system_event_log(struct dmi_sysfs_entry *entry) &dmi_system_event_log_ktype, &entry->kobj, "system_event_log"); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kobject_put(entry->child); goto out_free; + } ret = sysfs_create_bin_file(entry->child, &dmi_sel_raw_attr); if (ret) -- 2.17.1