From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4708aa85d50cc6e962dfa8acf5ad4e0d290a21db ] 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. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 2d56b109e3a5 ("EDAC: Handle error path in edac_mc_sysfs_init() properly") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612124335.6420-1-johan@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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