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x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure

This patch adds a call to put_device() when the device_register() call
has failed. This is required so that the last reference to the device is
given up.

Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5298F900.9000208@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Levente Kurusa 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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      arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

+ 3 - 1
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

@@ -2272,8 +2272,10 @@ static int mce_device_create(unsigned int cpu)
 	dev->release = &mce_device_release;
 
 	err = device_register(dev);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		put_device(dev);
 		return err;
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; mce_device_attrs[i]; i++) {
 		err = device_create_file(dev, mce_device_attrs[i]);