Make sure to use put_device() to free the initialised struct device so
that resources managed by driver core also gets released in the event of
a registration failure.
Fixes: de3910eb79ac ("edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy")
Fixes: 2d56b109e3a5 ("EDAC: Handle error path in edac_mc_sysfs_init() properly")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.6
Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index 7481955160a4..20374b8248f0 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -1075,14 +1075,14 @@ int __init edac_mc_sysfs_init(void)
err = device_add(mci_pdev);
if (err < 0)
- goto out_dev_free;
+ goto out_put_device;
edac_dbg(0, "device %s created\n", dev_name(mci_pdev));
return 0;
- out_dev_free:
- kfree(mci_pdev);
+ out_put_device:
+ put_device(mci_pdev);
out:
return err;
}
--
2.17.1
