Merging upstream version 4.19.260.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
index 6b07faaa1..23154d24b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ static __init int register_e820_pmem(void)
 	 * simply here to trigger the module to load on demand.
 	 */
 	pdev = platform_device_alloc("e820_pmem", -1);
-	return platform_device_add(pdev);
+
+	rc = platform_device_add(pdev);
+	if (rc)
+		platform_device_put(pdev);
+
+	return rc;
 }
 device_initcall(register_e820_pmem);