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@vger.kernel.org # 3.6 Cc: Denis Kirjanov kirjanov@gmail.com Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org --- 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; }