[PATCH 6.18 675/752] parisc: kernel: replace kfree() with put_device() in create_tree_node()

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:58:09Z

From: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>

[ Upstream commit dcf69599c47f29ce0a99117eb3f9ddcd2c4e78b6 ]

If device_register() fails, put_device() is the correct way to
drop the device reference.

Found by code review.

Fixes: 1070c9655b90 ("[PA-RISC] Fix must_check warnings in drivers.c")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c
index 1f8936fc22928..427e1334f8352 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static struct parisc_device * __init create_tree_node(char id,
dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->dma_mask;
dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = dev->dma_mask;
if (device_register(&dev->dev)) {
- kfree(dev);
+ put_device(&dev->dev);
return NULL;
}

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2.51.0