Merge 4.15-rc6 into char-misc-next

We want the fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 84b2dc76f140..b5f940ce0143 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -882,13 +882,10 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args)
         if (IS_ERR(dev))
                 return PTR_ERR(dev);
 
-        if (bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev))) {
-                device_destroy(bdi_class, dev->devt);
-                return -ENOMEM;
-        }
         cgwb_bdi_register(bdi);
         bdi->dev = dev;
 
+        bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev));
         set_bit(WB_registered, &bdi->wb.state);
 
         spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);