EDAC: Fix memleak in module init error path
Make sure to use put_device() to free the initialised struct device so
that resources managed by driver core also gets released in the event of
a registration failure.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 2d56b109e3a5 ("EDAC: Handle error path in edac_mc_sysfs_init() properly")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612124335.6420-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index 7481955..20374b8 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -1075,14 +1075,14 @@ int __init edac_mc_sysfs_init(void)
err = device_add(mci_pdev);
if (err < 0)
- goto out_dev_free;
+ goto out_put_device;
edac_dbg(0, "device %s created\n", dev_name(mci_pdev));
return 0;
- out_dev_free:
- kfree(mci_pdev);
+ out_put_device:
+ put_device(mci_pdev);
out:
return err;
}