From 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:35:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()
Git-commit: 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1
Patch-mainline: v4.16-rc7
References: bsc#1051510

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>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 kernel/workqueue.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5317,7 +5317,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct work
 
 	ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev);
 	if (ret) {
-		kfree(wq_dev);
+		put_device(&wq_dev->dev);
 		wq->wq_dev = NULL;
 		return ret;
 	}