4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> [ Upstream commit 2d803dc8f7a5f622ac47c3b650834ada3a2659b9 ] Never directly free @dev after calling device_register() or device_unregister(), even if device_register() returned an error. Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.c...@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo....@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c @@ -625,7 +625,8 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struc err = device_register(&devfreq->dev); if (err) { mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock); - goto err_dev; + put_device(&devfreq->dev); + goto err_out; } devfreq->trans_table = @@ -672,6 +673,7 @@ err_init: mutex_unlock(&devfreq_list_lock); device_unregister(&devfreq->dev); + devfreq = NULL; err_dev: if (devfreq) kfree(devfreq);