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pwm: sysfs: use put_device() instead of kfree()

Message ID 416c89ec3cff87e842a0ff148df13bed35a44c46.1520502811.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com
State Accepted
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Series pwm: sysfs: use put_device() instead of kfree() | expand

Commit Message

Arvind Yadav March 8, 2018, 9:57 a.m. UTC 
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.cs@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Thierry Reding March 27, 2018, 11:19 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 03:27:37PM +0530, Arvind Yadav 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.cs@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

Thierry
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c b/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c
index 83f2b0b..7c71cdb 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c
@@ -273,7 +273,8 @@  static int pwm_export_child(struct device *parent, struct pwm_device *pwm)
 	ret = device_register(&export->child);
 	if (ret) {
 		clear_bit(PWMF_EXPORTED, &pwm->flags);
-		kfree(export);
+		put_device(&export->child);
+		export = NULL;
 		return ret;
 	}