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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Martyn Welch <martyn@welchs.me.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: fix root device leak on init failure
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:49:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424104910.2619349-1-johan@kernel.org> (raw)

Make sure to deregister and free the root device in case module
initialisation fails.

Fixes: 658bcdae9c67 ("vme: Adding Fake VME driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 4.9
Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn@welchs.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_fake.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_fake.c b/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_fake.c
index be4ad47ed526..8abaa3165fbb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_fake.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_fake.c
@@ -1230,6 +1230,8 @@ static int __init fake_init(void)
 err_driver:
 	kfree(fake_bridge);
 err_struct:
+	root_device_unregister(vme_root);
+
 	return retval;
 }
 
-- 
2.53.0


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