Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: wilco_ec: Fix device reference leak on open failure

[Tzung-Bi Shih]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 12:47:12PM +0800, Yige Jiang wrote:
> telem_open() takes a reference to dev_data->dev before allocating
> the session. If that allocation fails, it returns -ENOMEM without
> dropping the reference. Since release is not called after a failed
> open, the device data remains pinned after removal.
> 
> Drop the reference on the allocation failure path, after restoring

Moving get_device() after kzalloc_obj() succeeds makes it cleaner.

> Assisted-by: LLM

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