Re: [PATCH] sparc: vio: use put_device() instead of kfree()

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On 4/25/2018 7:56 AM, Arvind Yadav wrote:
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error. Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
index 1a0fa10..32bae68 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct vio_dev *vio_create_one(struct mdesc_handle *hp, u64 mp,
  	if (err) {
  		printk(KERN_ERR "VIO: Could not register device %s, err=%d\n",
  		       dev_name(&vdev->dev), err);
-		kfree(vdev);
+		put_device(&vdev->dev);

Hmmm... I can see why the put_device() might be a good idea, but I think we still need the kfree() so as to not leak the memory that was kzalloc'd above for vdev.

sln

  		return NULL;
  	}
  	if (vdev->dp)

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