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Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().

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If device_register() in device_create_vargs() fails, the device
must be cleaned up with put_device() (which is also fine on NULL)
instead of kfree().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Cornelia Huck 2008-09-03 18:26:41 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 5739411acb
commit 286661b377
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@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ struct device *device_create_vargs(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
return dev;
error:
kfree(dev);
put_device(dev);
return ERR_PTR(retval);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_vargs);