From 30393949d1ed11b3025ff6f5966d8b94040d1999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:35:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] 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 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 664aebc50fe3..1961dd408bc5 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5272,7 +5272,7 @@ 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;
}