Drivers: hv: utils: Remove util transport handler from list if registration fails

If util transport fails to initialize for any reason, the list of transport
handlers may become corrupted due to freeing the transport handler without
removing it from the list. Fix this by cleaning it up from the list.

Signed-off-by: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
index 4f42c0e20c20..9a9983fa4531 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
@@ -310,6 +310,9 @@ struct hvutil_transport *hvutil_transport_init(const char *name,
         return hvt;
 
 err_free_hvt:
+        spin_lock(&hvt_list_lock);
+        list_del(&hvt->list);
+        spin_unlock(&hvt_list_lock);
         kfree(hvt);
         return NULL;
 }