From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:26:41 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=286661b3777897220ecfcd774bccc68a34667f39;p=linux-beck.git

Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().

If device_register() in device_create_vargs() fails, the device
must be cleaned up with put_device() (which is also fine on NULL)
instead of kfree().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index aac91e89d6af..9649d1c422a4 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ struct device *device_create_vargs(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
 	return dev;
 
 error:
-	kfree(dev);
+	put_device(dev);
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_vargs);