The patch titled
memstick: core: fix device_register() error handling
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling.patch
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Subject: memstick: core: fix device_register() error handling
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
If device_register() fails then call put_device(). See comment to
device_register.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c~memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c~memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling
+++ a/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ static void memstick_check(struct work_s
if (!host->card) {
host->card = card;
if (device_register(&card->dev)) {
+ put_device(&card->dev);
kfree(host->card);
host->card = NULL;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from segooon@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
md-check-return-code-of-read_sb_page.patch
mm-mempolicy-check-return-code-of-check_range.patch
memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling.patch
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