iio: dummy_evgen: fix possible memleak in evgen init
The memory allocated in the function iio_dummy_evgen_create is not
released if it fails to add the evgen device to device hierarchy. This
may result in a memory leak bug.
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
diff --git a/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c b/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c
index efd0005..c6033e3 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c
@@ -196,7 +196,10 @@ static __init int iio_dummy_evgen_init(void)
return ret;
device_initialize(&iio_evgen_dev);
dev_set_name(&iio_evgen_dev, "iio_evgen");
- return device_add(&iio_evgen_dev);
+ ret = device_add(&iio_evgen_dev);
+ if (ret)
+ put_device(&iio_evgen_dev);
+ return ret;
}
module_init(iio_dummy_evgen_init);
