From 377a4c5cb7abfd30bff2e516136d4a5a9d24eba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:07:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] x86/pmem: Fix platform-device leak in error path
[ Upstream commit 229e73d46994f15314f58b2d39bf952111d89193 ]
Make sure to free the platform device in the unlikely event that
registration fails.
Fixes: 7a67832c7e44 ("libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220620140723.9810-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
index 6b07faaa1579..23154d24b117 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ static __init int register_e820_pmem(void)
* simply here to trigger the module to load on demand.
*/
pdev = platform_device_alloc("e820_pmem", -1);
- return platform_device_add(pdev);
+
+ rc = platform_device_add(pdev);
+ if (rc)
+ platform_device_put(pdev);
+
+ return rc;
}
device_initcall(register_e820_pmem);