Commit 0fbf116d authored by Duncan Sands's avatar Duncan Sands Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Driver core: plug device probe memory leak 



Make sure data is freed if the kthread fails to start.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDuncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent acbd39fb

drivers/base/dd.c

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@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver * drv, struct device * dev) 
		probe_task = kthread_run(really_probe, data,

					 "probe-%s", dev->bus_id);

		if (IS_ERR(probe_task))

			ret = PTR_ERR(probe_task);

			ret = really_probe(data);

	} else

		ret = really_probe(data);