From 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arvind Yadav Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:35:43 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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; }