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Date:   Tue, 14 Jun 2022 18:07:39 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Zhi Song <zhi.song@bytedance.com>
Cc:     rafael@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] node: put_device after failing to device_register
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:00:59AM +0800, Zhi Song wrote:
> device_register() is used to register a device with the system.
> We need to call put_device() to give up the reference initialized
> in device_register() when it returns an error and this will clean
> up correctly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhi Song <zhi.song@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/node.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
> index 0ac6376ef7a1..88a3337c546e 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
> @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static struct node_access_nodes *node_init_node_access(struct node *node,
>  	list_add_tail(&access_node->list_node, &node->access_list);
>  	return access_node;
>  free_name:
> +	put_device(dev);
>  	kfree_const(dev->kobj.name);
>  free:
>  	kfree(access_node);
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

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