The reference count of the device incremented in device_initialize() is
not decremented when device_add() fails. Add a put_device() call before
returning from the function.
This bug was found by an experimental static analysis tool that I am
developing.
Fixes: 60f68597024d ("i2c: core: Setup i2c_adapter runtime-pm before calling device_add()")
Signed-off-by: Joe Hattori <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 7c810893bfa3..75d30861ffe2 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
res = device_add(&adap->dev);
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
+ put_device(&adap->dev);
goto out_list;
}
--
2.34.1
