EDAC: Fix memleak in module init error path

[ Upstream commit 4708aa85d50cc6e962dfa8acf5ad4e0d290a21db ]

Make sure to use put_device() to free the initialised struct device so
that resources managed by driver core also gets released in the event of
a registration failure.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 2d56b109e3a5 ("EDAC: Handle error path in edac_mc_sysfs_init() properly")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612124335.6420-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index e4fcfa84fbd3503246d144bcbcbb36747ed9171c..79c13301bf41662466b30c7cb3888ddeb047e018 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -1097,14 +1097,14 @@ int __init edac_mc_sysfs_init(void)
 
        err = device_add(mci_pdev);
        if (err < 0)
-               goto out_dev_free;
+               goto out_put_device;
 
        edac_dbg(0, "device %s created\n", dev_name(mci_pdev));
 
        return 0;
 
- out_dev_free:
-       kfree(mci_pdev);
+ out_put_device:
+       put_device(mci_pdev);
  out:
        return err;
 }