On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:29:00AM +0530, Rahul Ruikar wrote: > call put_device() when device_register() fails. > Sorry I didn't realize what you were trying to do here. This is not correct at all. The right thing is to fix device_register() to call put_device() itself. It's a bit involved, because all the callers will need to be audited but someone is working on this I think. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html