From: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> cleanup the sprd_port for the device when its .probe() would be called later, and then alloc memory for its sprd_port again. Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c index 914862844790..9917d7240172 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c @@ -1230,8 +1230,13 @@ static int sprd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) up->has_sysrq = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_SPRD_CONSOLE); ret = sprd_clk_init(up); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) { + devm_kfree(&pdev->dev, sprd_port[index]); + sprd_port[index] = NULL; + } return ret; + } res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); up->membase = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res); -- 2.20.1