Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(),
even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to
give up the reference initialized.
Release allocated memory for vop device in vop_release_dev().
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
static void vop_release_dev(struct device *d)
{
- put_device(d);
+ struct vop_device *dev = dev_to_vop(d);
+
+ kfree(dev);
}
struct vop_device *
goto free_vdev;
return vdev;
free_vdev:
- kfree(vdev);
+ put_device(&vdev->dev);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vop_register_device);