workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()
authorArvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:05:43 +0000 (15:35 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 May 2018 05:52:14 +0000 (07:52 +0200)
commit7c84e5e9c62cec8a3c49bf32ddabf2f285cb371b
tree85a7c5b323a51f31c4c89d8213f6394c2e4e2a0c
parent845c2de9578675a0969fd76162b53561938b39aa
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>
kernel/workqueue.c