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| author | Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> | 2018-03-06 15:35:43 +0530 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-30 07:50:36 +0200 |
| commit | 30393949d1ed11b3025ff6f5966d8b94040d1999 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ab2a93eda9dfdd4a184ffe3bd7a16d70773959c /kernel | |
| parent | cbaab49706e993a42e44bed67418156e4c5afcb1 (diff) | |
workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()
[ Upstream commit 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 ]
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized in this function instead.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 664aebc50fe3..1961dd408bc5 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -5272,7 +5272,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct workqueue_struct *wq) ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev); if (ret) { - kfree(wq_dev); + put_device(&wq_dev->dev); wq->wq_dev = NULL; return ret; } |