diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9874074730bf..12e0dab08da7 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 641741e010b615bae417c876a21d17dbd616241f
+refs/heads/master: cc36e7f124da139a819ad316c39d9dbcb5ba1897
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/trunk/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index bfdb90242a90..d6e4eaa48538 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3094,7 +3094,6 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_driver *driver)
 	driver->cdev.owner = driver->owner;
 	error = cdev_add(&driver->cdev, dev, driver->num);
 	if (error) {
-		cdev_del(&driver->cdev);
 		unregister_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num);
 		driver->ttys = NULL;
 		driver->termios = driver->termios_locked = NULL;