[PATCH 2/2] misc: ocxl: use put_device() instead of device_unregister()

[Frederic Barrat]

Le 12/03/2018 à 12:36, Arvind Yadav a écrit :
> if device_register() returned an error! Always use put_device()
> to give up the reference initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs at gmail.com>
> ---

OK, device_unregister() calls put_device() but also other actions that 
we can skip in this case.

Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


>   drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c
> index 0051d9e..21f4254 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static struct ocxl_fn *init_function(struct pci_dev *dev)
>   	rc = device_register(&fn->dev);
>   	if (rc) {
>   		deconfigure_function(fn);
> -		device_unregister(&fn->dev);
> +		put_device(&fn->dev);
>   		return ERR_PTR(rc);
>   	}
>   	return fn;
>