[PATCH RESEND] x86/pmem: fix platform-device leak in error path

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Mon Jun 20 2022 - 10:49:46 EST


Make sure to free the platform device in the unlikely event that
registration fails.

Fixes: 7a67832c7e44 ("libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

It's been almost four months so resending.

Obviously not an important fix in itself, but this allows for getting
rid of the last two users of platform_device_add() that failed to
release the platform device on errors (and may help prevent new ones
from being added).

Johan


arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
index 6b07faaa1579..23154d24b117 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ static __init int register_e820_pmem(void)
* simply here to trigger the module to load on demand.
*/
pdev = platform_device_alloc("e820_pmem", -1);
- return platform_device_add(pdev);
+
+ rc = platform_device_add(pdev);
+ if (rc)
+ platform_device_put(pdev);
+
+ return rc;
}
device_initcall(register_e820_pmem);
--
2.35.1