>From 00ad691ab140b54ab9f5de5e74cb994f552e8124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arvind Yadav Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:26:14 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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) -- 2.14.3