[PATCH 0/4] Convert manual kfree(dev) to put_device()

Tarun Sahu tarunsahu at google.com
Mon Aug 10 09:28:10 PDT 2026


Hello,

As per the guidelines, no devices that are tried to register with
device_register or to add using device_add, must use put_device on their
failure path. These series contains 4 patches that update these
instances.

Tarun Sahu (4):
  ARM: locomo: use put_device() on device_register() failure
  firmware/edd: use kobject_put() on edd_device_register() failure
  EDAC/versalnet: use put_device() on device_register() failure
  powerpc/ps3: use put_device() on device_register() failure in
    ps3_system_bus_device_register

 arch/arm/common/locomo.c                 | 13 ++--
 arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c | 83 ++++++++++++++----------
 arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c  |  2 +
 drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c            |  6 +-
 drivers/firmware/edd.c                   |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)


base-commit: dbaafe9cc56a996931eedfe043eb34418cc9cd9b
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2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog




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