Please queue up this Sparc bug fix for v4.14 and v4.16 -stable.
Thank you.
>From 00ad691ab140b54ab9f5de5e74cb994f552e8124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:26:14 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] sparc: vio: use put_device() instead of kfree()
[ Upstream commit 00ad691ab140b54ab9f5de5e74cb994f552e8124 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 1a0fa10cb6b7..32bae68e34c1 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);
return NULL;
}
if (vdev->dp)
--
2.14.3
