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>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
index 1a0fa10..32bae68 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct vio_dev *vio_create_one(struct mdesc_handle 
*hp, u64 mp,
        if (err) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "VIO: Could not register device %s, err=%d\n",
                       dev_name(&vdev->dev), err);
-               kfree(vdev);
+               put_device(&vdev->dev);
                return NULL;
        }
        if (vdev->dp)
-- 
2.7.4

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