It is not allowed to free memory used by struct device that was passed
to device_add(), even if that routine returns error.

Fix error path to use device_del() / put_device() instead.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yo...@cogentembedded.com>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 965911d9b36a..cd74b80abd03 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -488,21 +488,23 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct 
nvmem_config *config)
 
        rval = device_add(&nvmem->dev);
        if (rval)
-               goto out;
+               goto err_add;
 
        if (config->compat) {
                rval = nvmem_setup_compat(nvmem, config);
                if (rval)
-                       goto out;
+                       goto err_compat;
        }
 
        if (config->cells)
                nvmem_add_cells(nvmem, config);
 
        return nvmem;
-out:
-       ida_simple_remove(&nvmem_ida, nvmem->id);
-       kfree(nvmem);
+
+err_compat:
+       device_del(&nvmem->dev);
+err_add:
+       put_device(&nvmem->dev);
        return ERR_PTR(rval);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmem_register);
-- 
2.1.4

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