Driver core: plug device probe memory leak

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

Signed-off-by: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index b5f43c3e44fa2a5c9d5bf23898ea57472e7b38ae..ef7db6939cbf05af28bac4ae4bedc298d103214f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -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);