In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: dio: fix possible memory leak in dio_init()
If deviceregister() returns error, the 'dev' and name needs be freed. Add a release function, and then call putdevice() in the error path, so the name is freed in kobject_cleanup() and to the 'dev' is freed in release function.
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