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From 961b6ffe0e2c403b09a8efe4a2e986b3c415391a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:49:52 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] stm class: Fix a double free of stm_source_device
Git-commit: 961b6ffe0e2c403b09a8efe4a2e986b3c415391a
Patch-mainline: v5.3-rc7
References: bsc#1051510

In the error path of stm_source_register_device(), the kfree is
unnecessary, as the put_device() before it ends up calling
stm_source_device_release() to free stm_source_device, leading to
a double free at the outer kfree() call. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2fa ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for System Trace Module devices")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1563354988-23826-1-git-send-email-dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190821074955.3925-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
index e55b902560de..181e7ff1ec4f 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -1276,7 +1276,6 @@ int stm_source_register_device(struct device *parent,
 
 err:
 	put_device(&src->dev);
-	kfree(src);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
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