xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()

ArvindYadavCs · jgross1 · commit 351b2bccede1 · 2018-03-08T15:30:30.000+01:00
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -466,8 +466,11 @@ int xenbus_probe_node(struct xen_bus_type *bus,
 
 	/* Register with generic device framework. */
 	err = device_register(&xendev->dev);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		put_device(&xendev->dev);
+		xendev = NULL;
 		goto fail;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 fail:
