workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()
[ Upstream commit 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 ]
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized in this function instead.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 664aebc..1961dd4 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5272,7 +5272,7 @@
ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev);
if (ret) {
- kfree(wq_dev);
+ put_device(&wq_dev->dev);
wq->wq_dev = NULL;
return ret;
}