[PATCH 4.14 068/189] HID: intel-ish-hid: use put_device() instead of kfree()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 18 2018 - 05:05:04 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a4eb490a41a0da3b1275fc7427084cf9ae2c3c1c ]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static struct ishtp_cl_device *ishtp_bus
list_del(&device->device_link);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->device_list_lock, flags);
dev_err(dev->devc, "Failed to register ISHTP client device\n");
- kfree(device);
+ put_device(&device->dev);
return NULL;
}