linux-kernel - [PATCH] coresight: use put_device() instead of kfree()

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Date:   Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:08:42 +0530
From:   Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
To:     mathieu.poirier@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] coresight: use put_device() instead of kfree()

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@...il.com>
---
 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:
-- 
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