[PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: locomo: use put_device() on device_register() failure

Tarun Sahu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.driver-core,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When device_register() fails, calling kfree(dev) directly bypasses the
device_release() callback (locomo_dev_release) and leaks internal driver
core structures allocated during device initialization.

Fix this by replacing direct kfree(dev) with put_device(&dev->dev) when
device_register() returns an error, ensuring proper refcount decrement
and cleanup via locomo_dev_release().

Signed-off-by: Tarun Sahu <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm/common/locomo.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/common/locomo.c b/arch/arm/common/locomo.c
index 55e360452828..0f6689d343b0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/common/locomo.c
+++ b/arch/arm/common/locomo.c
@@ -223,10 +223,8 @@ locomo_init_one_child(struct locomo *lchip, struct locomo_dev_info *info)
 	int ret;
 
 	dev = kzalloc_obj(struct locomo_dev);
-	if (!dev) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (!dev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the parent device has a DMA mask associated with it,
@@ -255,10 +253,11 @@ locomo_init_one_child(struct locomo *lchip, struct locomo_dev_info *info)
 
 	ret = device_register(&dev->dev);
 	if (ret) {
- out:
-		kfree(dev);
+		put_device(&dev->dev);
+		return ret;
 	}
-	return ret;
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
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