diff --git a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c
index 083da31dc3ea..dc933fd5d5a0 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-scu.c
@@ -690,7 +690,11 @@ struct clk_hw *imx_clk_scu_alloc_dev(const char *name,
 		pr_warn("%s: failed to attached the power domain %d\n",
 			name, ret);
 
-	platform_device_add(pdev);
+	ret = platform_device_add(pdev);
+	if (ret) {
+		platform_device_put(pdev);
+		return ERR_PTR(ret);
+	}
 
 	/* For API backwards compatiblilty, simply return NULL for success */
 	return NULL;