* [PATCH] staging: vme_user: fix root device leak on init failure
@ 2026-04-24 10:49 Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-04-24 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: linux-staging, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable, Martyn Welch
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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