[ 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>
/* 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: