'mode' is malloced in mode_store() and should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak.
Fixes: 615c164da0eb ("intel_th: msu: Introduce buffer interface") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongj...@huawei.com> --- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c index fc9f15f36ad4..2e7a04f566d4 100644 --- a/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c @@ -1849,8 +1849,10 @@ mode_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, mode = kstrndup(buf, len, GFP_KERNEL); i = match_string(msc_mode, ARRAY_SIZE(msc_mode), mode); - if (i >= 0) + if (i >= 0) { + kfree(mode); goto found; + } /* Buffer sinks only work with a usable IRQ */ if (!msc->do_irq) {