sparc: vio: use put_device() instead of kfree()

[ 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 <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
index 1a0fa10cb6b721747b479651119b095d05893de0..32bae68e34c1b617c2e1547cbea9f609dc285d8f 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct vio_dev *vio_create_one(struct mdesc_handle *hp, u64 mp,
        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)