staging: vme: fix device_register() error handling

PATCH Applied Vasiliy Kulikov 1 participant 1 message Sep 19, 2010

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2010-09-19 12:55 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 12/14 staging: vme: fix device_register() error handling

If device_register() fails then call put_device(). See comment to device_register.

Signed-off-by Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>

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compile tested.

 drivers/staging/vme/vme.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

drivers/staging/vme/vme.c +3 -1

index 093fbff..c08668d 100644
@@ -1357,8 +1357,10 @@ int vme_register_bridge(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
 		dev_set_name(dev, "vme-%x.%x", bridge->num, i + 1);
 
 		retval = device_register(dev);
-		if (retval)
+		if (retval) {
+			put_device(dev);
 			goto err_reg;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return retval;

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