Commit 853d9b18 authored Nov 29, 2013 by Levente Kurusa Committed by Borislav Petkov Nov 30, 2013

x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure



This patch adds a call to put_device() when the device_register() call
has failed. This is required so that the last reference to the device is
given up.

Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5298F900.9000208@linux.com


Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

parent dc1ccc48

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

+3 −1

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		@@ -2272,8 +2272,10 @@ static int mce_device_create(unsigned int cpu)
		dev->release = &mce_device_release;

		err = device_register(dev);
		if (err)
		if (err) {
		put_device(dev);
		return err;
		}

		for (i = 0; mce_device_attrs[i]; i++) {
		err = device_create_file(dev, mce_device_attrs[i]);