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watchdog: Fix memleak in watchdog_cdev_register 

When watchdog_kworker is NULL, we should free wd_data
before the function returns to prevent memleak.

Fixes: 664a39236e ("watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core")
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200824024001.25474-1-dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
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Dinghao Liu 2020-08-24 10:40:01 +08:00 committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
parent 743949466e
commit 5afb6d203d
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
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@ -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);