4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a4eb490a41a0da3b1275fc7427084cf9ae2c3c1c ] 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: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static struct ishtp_cl_device *ishtp_bus list_del(&device->device_link); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->device_list_lock, flags); dev_err(dev->devc, "Failed to register ISHTP client device\n"); - kfree(device); + put_device(&device->dev); return NULL; }