xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()
authorArvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:10:37 +0000 (15:40 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 May 2018 05:50:36 +0000 (07:50 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 351b2bccede1cb673ec7957b35ea997ea24c8884 ]

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 <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c

index 33a31cfef55dd407c829f29a8c3b71379442799a..c2d447687e33f96d233e35b70322de13841756b6 100644 (file)
@@ -470,8 +470,11 @@ int xenbus_probe_node(struct xen_bus_type *bus,
 
        /* Register with generic device framework. */
        err = device_register(&xendev->dev);
-       if (err)
+       if (err) {
+               put_device(&xendev->dev);
+               xendev = NULL;
                goto fail;
+       }
 
        return 0;
 fail: