MIPS: ip22-gio: fix kfree() of static object

jhovold · gregkh · commit bf705c0f2a2d · 2026-07-24T15:55:01.000+02:00
commit c62cdd3 upstream. The gio bus root device is a statically allocated object which must not be freed by kfree() on failure to register the device or bus. Fixes: 82242d2 ("MIPS: IP22: Add missing put_device call") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17 Cc: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ static struct {
 
 static void gio_bus_release(struct device *dev)
 {
-	kfree(dev);
 }
 
 static struct device gio_bus = {

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ static struct {`
`30`	`30`
`31`	`31`	`static void gio_bus_release(struct device *dev)`
`32`	`32`	`{`
`33`		`- kfree(dev);`
`34`	`33`	`}`
`35`	`34`
`36`	`35`	`static struct device gio_bus = {`