Re: [PATCH] x86: mcheck: call put_device on device_register failure

[Borislav Petkov]

Can you please fix your

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On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:23:30PM -0500, Chen, Gong wrote:
> I have some concerns about it. if device_register is failed, it will
> backtraces all kinds of conditions automatically, including put_device
> definately. So do we really need an extra put_device when it returns
> failure?

Do you mean the "done:" label in device_add() which does put_device()
and which gets called by device_register()?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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