linux-kernel - [PATCH] extcon: Fix error handling in extcon_dev

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:10:55 +0800
From:   Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@....edu.cn>
To:     dinghao.liu@....edu.cn, kjlu@....edu
Cc:     MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] extcon: Fix error handling in extcon_dev_register

When devm_kcalloc() fails, we should execute device_unregister()
to unregister edev->dev from system.

Fixes: 046050f6e623e ("extcon: Update the prototype of extcon_register_notifier() with enum extcon")
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@....edu.cn>
---
 drivers/extcon/extcon.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
index 0a6438cbb3f3..e7a9561a826d 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
@@ -1241,6 +1241,7 @@ int extcon_dev_register(struct extcon_dev *edev)
 				sizeof(*edev->nh), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!edev->nh) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		device_unregister(&edev->dev);
 		goto err_dev;
 	}
 
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