drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
On 18 March 2018 at 01:38, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> index 389c4ba..132dfbc 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> @@ -1026,8 +1026,10 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct
> coresight_desc *desc)
> dev_set_name(&csdev->dev, "%s", desc->pdata->name);
>
> ret = device_register(&csdev->dev);
> - if (ret)
> - goto err_device_register;
> + if (ret) {
> + put_device(&csdev->dev);
> + goto err_kzalloc_csdev;
> + }
>
> mutex_lock(&coresight_mutex);
>
> @@ -1038,8 +1040,6 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct
> coresight_desc *desc)
>
> return csdev;
>
> -err_device_register:
> - kfree(conns);
Apologies for the late reply, I was travelling.
I suggest to simply replace kfree() with put_device() in order to
concentrate the error handling code in the same area and make sure
that memory allocated for @conns and @refcnts is freed.
Thanks,
Mathieu
> err_kzalloc_conns:
> kfree(refcnts);
> err_kzalloc_refcnts:
> --
> 2.7.4
>
