[PATCH] coresight: use put_device() instead of kfree()
From: Arvind Yadav
Date: Sun Mar 18 2018 - 03:39:07 EST
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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
index 389c4ba..132dfbc 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
@@ -1026,8 +1026,10 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc)
dev_set_name(&csdev->dev, "%s", desc->pdata->name);
ret = device_register(&csdev->dev);
- if (ret)
- goto err_device_register;
+ if (ret) {
+ put_device(&csdev->dev);
+ goto err_kzalloc_csdev;
+ }
mutex_lock(&coresight_mutex);
@@ -1038,8 +1040,6 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc)
return csdev;
-err_device_register:
- kfree(conns);
err_kzalloc_conns:
kfree(refcnts);
err_kzalloc_refcnts:
--
2.7.4