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* [PATCH] ACPI / container: Fix error code path in container_device_attach()
@ 2014-02-12  0:05 Rafael J. Wysocki
  2014-02-12  5:22 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2014-02-12  0:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ACPI Devel Maling List; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Toshi Kani

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

To avoid leaking memory on errors from device_register(), do a
put_device() on the device object in question in the error code
path of container_device_attach().

Fixes: caa73ea158de (ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
---

3.14 material.

Thanks!

---
 drivers/acpi/container.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/container.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/container.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/container.c
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ static int container_device_attach(struc
 	ACPI_COMPANION_SET(dev, adev);
 	dev->release = acpi_container_release;
 	ret = device_register(dev);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		put_device(dev);
 		return ret;
-
+	}
 	adev->driver_data = dev;
 	return 1;
 }


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