This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: fieldbus: Fix the error handling path in anybuss_host_common_probe() to the 5.10-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: staging-fieldbus-fix-the-error-handling-path-in-anyb.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3ea47d9bfc07eb7916c11c888796284810cdd598 Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Apr 22 08:48:18 2022 +0200 staging: fieldbus: Fix the error handling path in anybuss_host_common_probe() [ Upstream commit 7079b3483a17be2cfba64cbd4feb1b7ae07f1ea7 ] If device_register() fails, device_unregister() should not be called because it will free some resources that are not allocated. put_device() should be used instead. Fixes: 308ee87a2f1e ("staging: fieldbus: anybus-s: support HMS Anybus-S bus") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5401a519608d6e1a4e7435c20f4f20b0c5c36c23.1650610082.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c index 549cb7d51af8..2a20a1767d77 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c @@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ anybuss_host_common_probe(struct device *dev, goto err_device; return cd; err_device: - device_unregister(&cd->client->dev); + put_device(&cd->client->dev); err_kthread: kthread_stop(cd->qthread); err_reset: