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Date:   Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:13:06 -0700
From:   Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
To:     Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Cc:     alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, coresight@lists.linaro.org,
        leo.yan@linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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        suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration
 failure in cscfg_create_device
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:41:21PM +0000, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> 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() for error handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - simply call put_device() instead of cscfg_dev_release() in the error
> path of cscfg_create_device.
> ---
>  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..c30989e0675f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
> @@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static int cscfg_create_device(void)
>  
>  	err = device_register(dev);
>  	if (err)
> -		cscfg_dev_release(dev);
> +		put_device(dev);

Applied.

Thanks,
Mathieu

>  
>  create_dev_exit_unlock:
>  	mutex_unlock(&cscfg_mutex);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>