| Message ID | 66bd5f1ab1322081927f657090a04b44da326140.1522408033.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Arvind Yadav wrote: > 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@gmail.com> Applied, thank you.
diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c index f272cdd..2623a56 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static struct ishtp_cl_device *ishtp_bus_add_device(struct ishtp_device *dev, list_del(&device->device_link); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->device_list_lock, flags); dev_err(dev->devc, "Failed to register ISHTP client device\n"); - kfree(device); + put_device(&device->dev); return NULL; }
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@gmail.com> --- drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)