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Subject: [PATCH 5.9 546/757] watchdog: Use put_device on error
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:53:16 +0100
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From: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>

[ Upstream commit 937425d4cd3ae4e2882b41e332bbbab616bcf0ad ]

We should use put_device() instead of freeing device
directly after device_initialize().

Fixes: cb36e29bb0e4b ("watchdog: initialize device before misc_register")
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200824031230.31050-1-dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 785270ee337cb..bcf01af3fa6a8 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 				pr_err("%s: a legacy watchdog module is probably present.\n",
 					wdd->info->identity);
 			old_wd_data = NULL;
-			kfree(wd_data);
+			put_device(&wd_data->dev);
 			return err;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.25.1