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author | Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> | 2015-08-06 10:14:32 +1000 |
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committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2015-08-07 18:15:41 +1000 |
commit | 7d2e43f62cd9b54c45208c150323a847d63b6de3 (patch) | |
tree | c5fb28101fa7e82170aeb182049a7d096fb83ae6 | |
parent | 55fa87173f1932d163b53f2df9fe7034cdef2780 (diff) |
drivers/w1/w1_int.c: call put_device if device_register fails
Currently, memsetting and kfreeing the device is bad behaviour. The
device will have a reference count of 1 and hence can cause trouble
because it has kfree'd. Proper way to handle a failed device_register is
to call put_device right after it fails.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/w1/w1_int.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/w1/w1_int.c b/drivers/w1/w1_int.c index 47249a30eae3..20f766afa4c7 100644 --- a/drivers/w1/w1_int.c +++ b/drivers/w1/w1_int.c @@ -91,8 +91,7 @@ static struct w1_master *w1_alloc_dev(u32 id, int slave_count, int slave_ttl, err = device_register(&dev->dev); if (err) { pr_err("Failed to register master device. err=%d\n", err); - memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct w1_master)); - kfree(dev); + put_device(&dev->dev); dev = NULL; } |