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authorArvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>2018-03-06 15:40:37 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-30 07:49:04 +0200
commit8c9c7530390dc4774f429c44c0f2fe4da1f4159a (patch)
tree741fa1745978b0f39d3f6e6ca00c54c13a85cfc4 /drivers/xen
parentbfffc2c3f56b462cdf5eeea639d898a69b323001 (diff)
xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()
[ Upstream commit 351b2bccede1cb673ec7957b35ea997ea24c8884 ] Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
index 33a31cfef55d..c2d447687e33 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -470,8 +470,11 @@ int xenbus_probe_node(struct xen_bus_type *bus,
/* Register with generic device framework. */
err = device_register(&xendev->dev);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ put_device(&xendev->dev);
+ xendev = NULL;
goto fail;
+ }
return 0;
fail: