[PATCH 4/5] EDAC/versalnet: Fix device_register() error handling in init_one_mc()

From: Prasanna Kumar T S M

Date: Sun Mar 22 2026 - 09:12:04 EST


When device_register() fails, it must be followed by put_device()
rather than kfree(), because device_register() calls
device_initialize() which sets up the device refcount. The matching
release function versal_edac_release() handles the actual kfree().

Also reorder the dev allocation to after edac_mc_alloc() so the error
path no longer needs a separate err_dev_free label.

Fixes: d5fe2fec6c40d ("EDAC: Add a driver for the AMD Versal NET DDR controller")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c b/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c
index acd51b492772..6463e88ed3d3 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c
@@ -817,24 +817,26 @@ static int init_one_mc(struct mc_priv *priv, struct platform_device *pdev, int i
if (!name)
return rc;

- dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dev)
- goto err_name_free;
-
mci = edac_mc_alloc(i, ARRAY_SIZE(layers), layers, sizeof(struct mc_priv));
if (!mci) {
edac_printk(KERN_ERR, EDAC_MC, "Failed memory allocation for MC%d\n", i);
- goto err_dev_free;
+ goto err_name_free;
}

+ dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dev)
+ goto err_mc_free;
+
sprintf(name, "versal-net-ddrmc5-edac-%d", i);

dev->init_name = name;
dev->release = versal_edac_release;

rc = device_register(dev);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc) {
+ put_device(dev);
goto err_mc_free;
+ }

mci->pdev = dev;
mc_init(mci, dev);
@@ -856,8 +858,6 @@ static int init_one_mc(struct mc_priv *priv, struct platform_device *pdev, int i
device_unregister(mci->pdev);
err_mc_free:
edac_mc_free(mci);
-err_dev_free:
- kfree(dev);
err_name_free:
kfree(name);

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