Subject: [PATCH] coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device

From: Miaoqian Lin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:31:00 +0000

device_register() calls device_initialize(),
according to doc of device_initialize:

    Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing
    * @dev directly once you have called this function.

To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() instead call kfree
directly.

Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
index 43054568430f..007fa1c761a7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ struct device *cscfg_device(void)
 /* Must have a release function or the kernel will complain on module unload */
 static void cscfg_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 {
-	kfree(cscfg_mgr);
+	put_device(dev);
 	cscfg_mgr = NULL;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1

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