From: Sebastian Ott If io_subchannel_initialize_dev fails it will release the only reference to the ccw device therefore the caller should not kfree this device since this is done in the release function. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- drivers/s390/cio/device.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/cio/device.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/cio/device.c +++ quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/cio/device.c @@ -772,10 +772,8 @@ static struct ccw_device * io_subchannel cdev = io_subchannel_allocate_dev(sch); if (!IS_ERR(cdev)) { ret = io_subchannel_initialize_dev(sch, cdev); - if (ret) { - kfree(cdev); + if (ret) cdev = ERR_PTR(ret); - } } return cdev; } -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/