4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com>
[ 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...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct vio_dev *vio_create_one(st
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)
