This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mISDN: fix misuse of put_device() in mISDN_register_device()
to the 4.9-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:
misdn-fix-misuse-of-put_device-in-misdn_register_dev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f818aa1231b01ce106664aded6e44f70ff154af4
Author: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 10 19:38:23 2022 +0800
mISDN: fix misuse of put_device() in mISDN_register_device()
[ Upstream commit 2d25107e111a85c56f601a5470f1780ec054e6ac ]
We should not release reference by put_device() before calling device_initialize().
Fixes: e7d1d4d9ac0d ("mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_register_device()")
Signed-off-by: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c
index 5cd53b2c47c7..e542439f4950 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ mISDN_register_device(struct mISDNdevice *dev,
err = get_free_devid();
if (err < 0)
- goto error1;
+ return err;
dev->id = err;
device_initialize(&dev->dev);
