From: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com> [ Upstream commit 98749b7188affbf2900c2aab704a8853901d1139 ] If register_netdev(dev) fails, free_netdev(dev) needs to be called, otherwise a memory leak will occur. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c index ba9df430fca6..fdab49872587 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c @@ -1148,6 +1148,7 @@ static int __init yam_init_driver(void) err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { printk(KERN_WARNING "yam: cannot register net device %s\n", dev->name); + free_netdev(dev); goto error; } yam_devs[i] = dev; -- 2.25.1