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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>2010-09-15 08:05:47 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-10-13 16:19:21 +1100
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powerpc/vio: Use put_device() on device_register failure
The kernel doc for device_register (and device_initialize) very clearly state to call put_device not kfree after calling, even on error. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
index fa3469d..72db4b0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -1254,8 +1254,7 @@ struct vio_dev *vio_register_device_node(struct device_node *of_node)
if (device_register(&viodev->dev)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to register device %s\n",
__func__, dev_name(&viodev->dev));
- /* XXX free TCE table */
- kfree(viodev);
+ put_device(&viodev->dev);
return NULL;
}