[PATCH] edd: fix a memory leak in edd_init()

After edd_device_register(), edev should be released by kobject_put().

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn --- drivers/firmware/edd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/edd.c b/drivers/firmware/edd.c index 55dec4eb2c00..82b326ce83ce 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/edd.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/edd.c @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ edd_init(void)

rc = edd_device_register(edev, i); if (rc) { - kfree(edev); + kobject_put(&edev->kobj); goto out; } edd_devices[i] = edev;