From 30393949d1ed11b3025ff6f5966d8b94040d1999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arvind Yadav Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:35:43 +0530 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3