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workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree() 

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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Arvind Yadav 2018-03-06 15:35:43 +05:30 committed by Tejun Heo
parent fc6eabbbf8
commit 537f4146c5
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@ -5337,7 +5337,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev);
if (ret) {
kfree(wq_dev);
put_device(&wq_dev->dev);
wq->wq_dev = NULL;
return ret;
}