From 06739a8ad321b1e5140b318c648b0cc4bf8c6daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Ott Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:09:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [S390] cio: fix double free after failed device initialization If io_subchannel_initialize_dev fails it will release the only reference to the ccw device therefore the caller should not kfree this device since this is done in the release function. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- drivers/s390/cio/device.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/device.c b/drivers/s390/cio/device.c index 3c57c1a18bb8..d593bc76afe3 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/cio/device.c +++ b/drivers/s390/cio/device.c @@ -772,10 +772,8 @@ static struct ccw_device * io_subchannel_create_ccwdev(struct subchannel *sch) cdev = io_subchannel_allocate_dev(sch); if (!IS_ERR(cdev)) { ret = io_subchannel_initialize_dev(sch, cdev); - if (ret) { - kfree(cdev); + if (ret) cdev = ERR_PTR(ret); - } } return cdev; } -- 2.11.0