If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() need
be freed. As comment of device_add() says, it should use put_device() to
give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device, then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
Fixes: c8806b6c9e82 ("snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA")
Signed-off-by: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
index 3e2e5783924d..e429ad23c396 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ snic_tgt_create(struct snic *snic, struct snic_tgt_id *tgtid)
"Snic Tgt: device_add, with err = %d\n",
ret);
+ put_device(&tgt->dev);
put_device(&snic->shost->shost_gendev);
spin_lock_irqsave(snic->shost->host_lock, flags);
list_del(&tgt->list);
--
2.17.1
