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Subject[PATCH] watchdog: Fix memleak in watchdog_cdev_register
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When watchdog_kworker is NULL, we should free wd_data
before the function returns to prevent memleak.

Fixes: 664a39236e718 ("watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core")
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
---
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 6798addabd5a..785270ee337c 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -994,8 +994,10 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
wd_data->wdd = wdd;
wdd->wd_data = wd_data;

- if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker))
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker)) {
+ kfree(wd_data);
return -ENODEV;
+ }

device_initialize(&wd_data->dev);
wd_data->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(watchdog_devt), wdd->id);
--
2.17.1
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