[PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: fix an error handling in fsl_mc_device_add()

Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang at isrc.iscas.ac.cn
Mon Dec 22 18:49:58 AEDT 2025


If device_add() fails, call put_device() to drop the device
reference and do the cleanp.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b767348e-d89c-416e-acea-1ebbff3bea20@stanley.mountain/
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui at nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang at isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
index 25845c04e562..90a2107a9905 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
@@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ int fsl_mc_device_add(struct fsl_mc_obj_desc *obj_desc,
 		dev_err(parent_dev,
 			"device_add() failed for device %s: %d\n",
 			dev_name(&mc_dev->dev), error);
-		goto error_cleanup_dev;
+		put_device(&mc_dev->dev)
+		return error;
 	}
 
 	dev_dbg(parent_dev, "added %s\n", dev_name(&mc_dev->dev));
-- 
2.25.1



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