On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:40:01AM +0800, Dinghao Liu wrote:
> When watchdog_kworker is NULL, we should free wd_data
> before the function returns to prevent memleak.
>
> Fixes: 664a39236e718 ("watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in
> watchdog core")
> Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao....@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> index 6798addabd5a..785270ee337c 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> @@ -994,8 +994,10 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device
> *wdd)
> wd_data->wdd = wdd;
> wdd->wd_data = wd_data;
>
> - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker))
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker)) {
> + kfree(wd_data);
> return -ENODEV;
> + }
>
> device_initialize(&wd_data->dev);
> wd_data->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(watchdog_devt), wdd->id);
> --
> 2.17.1
>
