[PATCH] watchdog: fix memory leak in error path

[Pavel Machek]

Fix memory leak in error path.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 6798addabd5a..785270ee337c 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -994,8 +994,10 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 	wd_data->wdd = wdd;
 	wdd->wd_data = wd_data;
 
-	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker))
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker)) {
+		kfree(wd_data);
 		return -ENODEV;
+	}
 
 	device_initialize(&wd_data->dev);
 	wd_data->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(watchdog_devt), wdd->id);

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