[PATCH 06/14] pcmcia: cs: fix device_register() error handling

Vasiliy Kulikov segooon at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 08:54:55 EDT 2010


If device_register() fails then call put_device().
See comment to device_register.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon at gmail.com>
---
 compile tested.

 drivers/pcmcia/cs.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
index d8189d4..9e8ab51 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ static int pccardd(void *__skt)
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &skt->dev,
 			   "PCMCIA: unable to register socket\n");
+		put_device(&skt->dev);
 		skt->thread = NULL;
 		complete(&skt->thread_done);
 		return 0;
-- 
1.7.0.4




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