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-rw-r--r--drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
index 5b120402d405..cc23b90cae02 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
@@ -533,13 +533,17 @@ static void vmbus_add_channel_work(struct work_struct *work)
* Add the new device to the bus. This will kick off device-driver
* binding which eventually invokes the device driver's AddDevice()
* method.
+ *
+ * If vmbus_device_register() fails, the 'device_obj' is freed in
+ * vmbus_device_release() as called by device_unregister() in the
+ * error path of vmbus_device_register(). In the outside error
+ * path, there's no need to free it.
*/
ret = vmbus_device_register(newchannel->device_obj);
if (ret != 0) {
pr_err("unable to add child device object (relid %d)\n",
newchannel->offermsg.child_relid);
- kfree(newchannel->device_obj);
goto err_deq_chan;
}