workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()

Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized in this function instead.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index bb9a519cbf5093ece372daa532121f1511957999..ccd1080dd6e7108a9521a0d2ea6d1a9a52c6431c 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5337,7 +5337,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 
        ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev);
        if (ret) {
-               kfree(wq_dev);
+               put_device(&wq_dev->dev);
                wq->wq_dev = NULL;
                return ret;
        }