diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e3e2edc81c8d..d8ef599f3d8a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 90ed2b692fa75272d7395c4e4c2de4423d52f506
+refs/heads/master: 283fdd0b8ab102080dbffe4bcaae245f9ceda184
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/s390/cio/device.c b/trunk/drivers/s390/cio/device.c
index 2d31f06a913e..f831b6465c60 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/s390/cio/device.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/s390/cio/device.c
@@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ static int io_subchannel_initialize_dev(struct subchannel *sch,
 	/* Do first half of device_register. */
 	device_initialize(&cdev->dev);
 	if (!get_device(&sch->dev)) {
-		if (cdev->dev.release)
-			cdev->dev.release(&cdev->dev);
+		/* Release reference from device_initialize(). */
+		put_device(&cdev->dev);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	return 0;