This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
extcon: Fix error handling in extcon_dev_register
to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
extcon-fix-error-handling-in-extcon_dev_register.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 41cf224b7f9b147a85643f91abd804707ef4b218
Author: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 19 16:10:55 2021 +0800
extcon: Fix error handling in extcon_dev_register
[ Upstream commit d3bdd1c3140724967ca4136755538fa7c05c2b4e ]
When devm_kcalloc() fails, we should execute device_unregister()
to unregister edev->dev from system.
Fixes: 046050f6e623e ("extcon: Update the prototype of extcon_register_notifier() with enum extcon")
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
index 0a6438cbb3f3..e7a9561a826d 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
@@ -1241,6 +1241,7 @@ int extcon_dev_register(struct extcon_dev *edev)
sizeof(*edev->nh), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!edev->nh) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
+ device_unregister(&edev->dev);
goto err_dev;
}
