Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> --- drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c index 9878c48..8182a3a 100644 --- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c +++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ int ntb_transport_register_client_dev(char *device_name) rc = device_register(dev); if (rc) { - kfree(client_dev); + put_device(dev); goto err; } -- 1.9.1