After device_register() is called, put_device() is required to drop the device reference. In this case, put_device() -> chan_dev_release() will finally release chan->dev. Thus there is no need to call kfree again to release the chan->dev.

Found by code review.

Fixes: d2fb0a043838 ("dmaengine: break out channel registration") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn --- drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c index ca13cd39330b..9d7cea1d6e91 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c +++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c @@ -1071,6 +1071,7 @@ static int __dma_async_device_channel_register(struct dma_device *device, const char *name) { int rc; + bool dev_registered = false;

chan->local = alloc_percpu(typeof(*chan->local)); if (!chan->local) @@ -1102,6 +1103,7 @@ static int __dma_async_device_channel_register(struct dma_device *device, else dev_set_name(&chan->dev->device, "%s", name); rc = device_register(&chan->dev->device); + dev_registered = true; if (rc) goto err_out_ida; chan->client_count = 0; @@ -1112,7 +1114,10 @@ static int __dma_async_device_channel_register(struct dma_device *device, err_out_ida: ida_free(&device->chan_ida, chan->chan_id); err_free_dev: - kfree(chan->dev); + if (dev_registered) + put_device(&chan->dev->device); + else + kfree(chan->dev); err_free_local: free_percpu(chan->local); chan->local = NULL;