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-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 3729f99fd8ec..694357f2816b 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -971,8 +971,10 @@ 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);