From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandaga...@linaro.org> --- Hi Greg, Can you pick this single slimbus patch for 4.17 merge cycle. Thanks, srini drivers/slimbus/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/slimbus/core.c b/drivers/slimbus/core.c index 4988a8f4d905..7ddfc675b131 100644 --- a/drivers/slimbus/core.c +++ b/drivers/slimbus/core.c @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static struct slim_device *slim_alloc_device(struct slim_controller *ctrl, sbdev->e_addr = *eaddr; ret = slim_add_device(ctrl, sbdev, node); if (ret) { - kfree(sbdev); + put_device(&sbdev->dev); return NULL; } -- 2.15.1