[PATCH v2] staging: vc04_services: vchiq_bus: Do not kfree device

Umang Jain umang.jain at ideasonboard.com
Tue Oct 17 22:52:28 PDT 2023


As per device_register() documentation, this kfree() on error path will
crash. The call to put_device() is all that is needed here to free the
memory.

Fixes: 027e5703de6b ("staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Add new bus type and device type")
Signed-off-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain at ideasonboard.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add a Fixes: tag
---
 drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_bus.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_bus.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_bus.c
index 4ac3491efe45..0076d091b9b2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_bus.c
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ vchiq_device_register(struct device *parent, const char *name)
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(parent, "Cannot register %s: %d\n", name, ret);
 		put_device(&device->dev);
-		kfree(device);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 

base-commit: a2fc3e8215313c8e4e42d4b2062830aaf1ef49c0
-- 
2.40.1




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