From: Tom Rix <t...@redhat.com> clang static analysis flags this error
fsl-mc-bus.c:695:2: warning: Attempt to free released memory [unix.Malloc] kfree(mc_dev); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ The problem block of code is mc_bus = kzalloc(sizeof(*mc_bus), GFP_KERNEL); if (!mc_bus) return -ENOMEM; mc_dev = &mc_bus->mc_dev; mc_bus's structure contains a mc_dev element, freeing it later is not appropriate. So check if mc_bus was allocated before freeing mc_dev This is a case where checkpatch WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required + if (mc_bus) + kfree(mc_bus); is wrong. Fixes: a042fbed0290 ("staging: fsl-mc: simplify couple of deallocations") Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <t...@redhat.com> --- drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c index 40526da5c6a6..7390e56661a0 100644 --- a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c +++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c @@ -691,8 +691,10 @@ int fsl_mc_device_add(struct fsl_mc_obj_desc *obj_desc, error_cleanup_dev: kfree(mc_dev->regions); - kfree(mc_bus); - kfree(mc_dev); + if (mc_bus) + kfree(mc_bus); + else + kfree(mc_dev); return error; } -- 2.18.1