releases/4.8.17/stm-class-fix-device-leak-in-open-error-path.patch

From a0ebf519b8a2666438d999c62995618c710573e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:17:31 +0200
Subject: stm class: Fix device leak in open error path

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit a0ebf519b8a2666438d999c62995618c710573e5 upstream.

Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() also on
allocation errors in open().

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for...")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
 	struct stm_file *stmf;
 	struct device *dev;
 	unsigned int major = imajor(inode);
-	int err = -ENODEV;
+	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	dev = class_find_device(&stm_class, NULL, &major, major_match);
 	if (!dev)
@@ -369,8 +369,9 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
 
 	stmf = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmf), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!stmf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_put_device;
 
+	err = -ENODEV;
 	stm_output_init(&stmf->output);
 	stmf->stm = to_stm_device(dev);
 
@@ -382,9 +383,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
 	return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
 
 err_free:
+	kfree(stmf);
+err_put_device:
 	/* matches class_find_device() above */
 	put_device(dev);
-	kfree(stmf);
 
 	return err;
 }