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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index b5f43c3e44fa..ef7db6939cbf 100644
--- 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);