From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:54:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 06/14] pcmcia: cs: fix device_register() error handling Message-Id: <1284900895-24453-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dominik Brodowski , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If device_register() fails then call put_device(). See comment to device_register. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov --- compile tested. drivers/pcmcia/cs.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c index d8189d4..9e8ab51 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c @@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ static int pccardd(void *__skt) if (ret) { dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &skt->dev, "PCMCIA: unable to register socket\n"); + put_device(&skt->dev); skt->thread = NULL; complete(&skt->thread_done); return 0; -- 1.7.0.4