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| author |   Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> | 2018-03-06 15:35:43 +0530 |
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| committer |   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2018-03-13 13:26:03 -0700 |
| commit | 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 (patch) | |
| tree | b9efb4fd1da5c35febeef6dd3f9e21ac824d810e /kernel/workqueue.c | |
| parent | Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.16-4' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1.tar.xz linux-dev-537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1.zip | |
workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized in this function instead.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index bb9a519cbf50..ccd1080dd6e7 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -5337,7 +5337,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct workqueue_struct *wq) ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev); if (ret) { - kfree(wq_dev); + put_device(&wq_dev->dev); wq->wq_dev = NULL; return ret; } |