[PATCH] nvdimm/bus: Fix dev double put in nd_async_device_register()

From: Wentao Liang

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 09:30:55 EST


device_add() takes and drops its own reference on every return path, so
the async worker only owns the reference that __nd_device_register()
took with get_device(). The failure branch drops that same reference once
more before the unconditional put_device(), which underflows the refcount
and frees the device while it is still referenced by its creator, as
reported by KASAN for the parent pointer access in this function.

Drop the spurious put_device() from the failure branch.

Fixes: 4d88a97aa9e8c ("libnvdimm, nvdimm: dimm driver and base libnvdimm device-driver infrastructure")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
index 45b7d756e39a..a1f33a03aba8 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
@@ -488,10 +488,8 @@ static void nd_async_device_register(void *d, async_cookie_t cookie)
struct device *dev = d;
struct device *parent = dev->parent;

- if (device_add(dev) != 0) {
+ if (device_add(dev) != 0)
dev_err(dev, "%s: failed\n", __func__);
- put_device(dev);
- }
put_device(dev);
if (parent)
put_device(parent);
--
2.34.1