ChangeSet 1.869, 2002/12/12 09:38:05-08:00, greg@kroah.com

[PATCH] Driver core: Fix class leak in class_hotplug.

Thanks to Pat Mochel for pointing this out to me.


diff -Nru a/drivers/base/hotplug.c b/drivers/base/hotplug.c
--- a/drivers/base/hotplug.c	Fri Dec 13 17:19:08 2002
+++ b/drivers/base/hotplug.c	Fri Dec 13 17:19:08 2002
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@
 int class_hotplug (struct device *dev, const char *action)
 {
 	struct device_class * cls;
+	int retval;
 
 	pr_debug ("%s\n", __FUNCTION__);
 
@@ -162,5 +163,9 @@
 	if (!cls)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	return do_hotplug (dev, cls->name, action, cls->hotplug);
+	retval = do_hotplug (dev, cls->name, action, cls->hotplug);
+
+	put_devclass(cls);
+
+	return retval;
 }