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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c index a3f6933f94e3..ccfa5ceb43c0 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c +++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c @@ -508,13 +508,17 @@ static void vmbus_add_channel_work(struct work_struct *work) * Add the new device to the bus. This will kick off device-driver * binding which eventually invokes the device driver's AddDevice() * method. + * + * If vmbus_device_register() fails, the 'device_obj' is freed in + * vmbus_device_release() as called by device_unregister() in the + * error path of vmbus_device_register(). In the outside error + * path, there's no need to free it. */ ret = vmbus_device_register(newchannel->device_obj); if (ret != 0) { pr_err("unable to add child device object (relid %d)\n", newchannel->offermsg.child_relid); - kfree(newchannel->device_obj); goto err_deq_chan; } |