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Subject[PATCH 4.9 191/329] xen: xenbus: use put_device() instead of kfree()
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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 351b2bccede1cb673ec7957b35ea997ea24c8884 ]

Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -470,8 +470,11 @@ int xenbus_probe_node(struct xen_bus_typ

/* Register with generic device framework. */
err = device_register(&xendev->dev);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ put_device(&xendev->dev);
+ xendev = NULL;
goto fail;
+ }

return 0;
fail:

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