[SCSI] enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error
we also need to clean up and free the cdev.
Reported-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index 48c84a5..00e5fcac8 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -285,8 +285,11 @@
cdev->groups = enclosure_groups;
err = device_register(cdev);
- if (err)
- ERR_PTR(err);
+ if (err) {
+ ecomp->number = -1;
+ put_device(cdev);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+ }
return ecomp;
}