From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:42176 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030849AbeEXKAO (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2018 06:00:14 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Arvind Yadav , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.16 033/161] sparc: vio: use put_device() instead of kfree() Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 11:37:38 +0200 Message-Id: <20180524093022.332924297@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180524093018.331893860@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180524093018.331893860@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arvind Yadav [ 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct vio_dev *vio_create_one(st 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)