Commit 286661b3 authored Sep 03, 2008 by Cornelia Huck Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Oct 16, 2008

Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().



If device_register() in device_create_vargs() fails, the device
must be cleaned up with put_device() (which is also fine on NULL)
instead of kfree().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent 5739411a

drivers/base/core.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ struct device device_create_vargs(struct class class, struct device *parent,
		return dev;

		error:
		kfree(dev);
		put_device(dev);
		return ERR_PTR(retval);
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_vargs);