From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:50:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure
X-Git-Tag: v5.16-rc7~8^2
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26a8b09437804fabfb1db080d676b96c0de68e7c;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Flinux.git

platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix memleak on registration failure

In case device registration fails during module initialisation, the
platform device structure needs to be freed using platform_device_put()
to properly free all resources (e.g. the device name).

Fixes: 938835aa903a ("platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: do not create a static struct device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 5.9
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211222105023.6205-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmc/pltdrv.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmc/pltdrv.c
index 73797680b895c..15ca8afdd973d 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmc/pltdrv.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmc/pltdrv.c
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static int __init pmc_core_platform_init(void)
 
 	retval = platform_device_register(pmc_core_device);
 	if (retval)
-		kfree(pmc_core_device);
+		platform_device_put(pmc_core_device);
 
 	return retval;
 }