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| author | Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> | 2013-11-29 21:28:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2013-11-30 12:14:51 +0100 |
| commit | 853d9b18f1e861d37e9b271742329f8c1176eabe (patch) | |
| tree | 171fb589e32a47f2d71ace4c24b2cbe40064a222 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | |
| parent | dc1ccc48159d63eca5089e507c82c7d22ef60839 (diff) | |
x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure
This patch adds a call to put_device() when the device_register() call
has failed. This is required so that the last reference to the device is
given up.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5298F900.9000208@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index b3218cdee95..a389c1d859e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -2272,8 +2272,10 @@ static int mce_device_create(unsigned int cpu) dev->release = &mce_device_release; err = device_register(dev); - if (err) + if (err) { + put_device(dev); return err; + } for (i = 0; mce_device_attrs[i]; i++) { err = device_create_file(dev, mce_device_attrs[i]); |