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| author | Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> | 2018-04-25 20:26:14 +0530 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-25 16:17:31 +0200 |
| commit | ea5ffcd46716fcda3da98313cffcf1ae5dcbb2c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 11e2262551db5d3fa6963aeb92f8e694d27e24cd /arch/sparc | |
| parent | c98b38c5ede478b938944109e71798462c36c88c (diff) | |
sparc: vio: use put_device() instead of kfree()
[ Upstream commit 00ad691ab140b54ab9f5de5e74cb994f552e8124 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c index 1a0fa10cb6b7..32bae68e34c1 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct vio_dev *vio_create_one(struct mdesc_handle *hp, u64 mp, if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "VIO: Could not register device %s, err=%d\n", dev_name(&vdev->dev), err); - kfree(vdev); + put_device(&vdev->dev); return NULL; } if (vdev->dp) |