linux-kernel - [PATCH] IA64: tiocx: use put

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Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:14:45 +0530
From:   Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
To:     tony.luck@...el.com, fenghua.yu@...el.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] IA64: tiocx: 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>
---
 arch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c
index 32d0380..fd515bc 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ cx_device_register(nasid_t nasid, int part_num, int mfg_num,
 	dev_set_name(&cx_dev->dev, "%d", cx_dev->cx_id.nasid);
 	r = device_register(&cx_dev->dev);
 	if (r) {
-		kfree(cx_dev);
+		put_device(&cx_dev->dev);
 		return r;
 	}
 	get_device(&cx_dev->dev);
-- 
2.7.4