From: chengkaitao <pilgrimtao@gmail.com> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.124 commit 6c18f47f47d4e5df42db2300bf4200fd0a2c7a4f category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5L6E7 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit a58a7f97ba11391d2d0d408e0b24f38d86ae748e ] The reference must be released when device_register(&vm_cmdline_parent) failed. Add the corresponding 'put_device()' in the error handling path. Signed-off-by: chengkaitao <pilgrimtao@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20220602005542.16489-1-chengkaitao@didiglobal.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c index 238383ff1064..5c970e6f664c 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c @@ -689,6 +689,7 @@ static int vm_cmdline_set(const char *device, if (!vm_cmdline_parent_registered) { err = device_register(&vm_cmdline_parent); if (err) { + put_device(&vm_cmdline_parent); pr_err("Failed to register parent device!\n"); return err; } -- 2.20.1