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Message-ID: <20180307174700.013e20ae@wiggum>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 17:47:00 +0100
From: Michael Büsch <m@...s.ch>
To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb:: use put_device() if device_register fail
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:31:30 +0530
Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com> wrote:
> if device_register() returned an error! Always use put_device()
> to give up the reference initialized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
> ---
> drivers/ssb/main.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ssb/main.c b/drivers/ssb/main.c
> index 65420a9..c4449e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/ssb/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/ssb/main.c
> @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ static int ssb_devices_register(struct ssb_bus *bus)
> ssb_err("Could not register %s\n", dev_name(dev));
> /* Set dev to NULL to not unregister
> * dev on error unwinding. */
> + put_device(dev);
> sdev->dev = NULL;
> kfree(devwrap);
> goto error;
I don't think this is correct.
The dev structure is allocated as part of devwrap, which is freed here.
Why do you think we need put_device here?
--
Michael
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