Merge tag 'firewire-fixes-6.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/li…

…nux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394

Pull firewire fix from Takashi Sakamoto:
 "A single patch to fix long-standing issue of memory leak at failure of
  device registration for fw_unit. We rarely encounter the issue, but it
  should be applied to stable releases, since it fixes inappropriate API
  usage"

* tag 'firewire-fixes-6.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: core: fix possible memory leak in create_units()

drivers/firewire/core-device.c

@@ -717,14 +717,11 @@ static void create_units(struct fw_device *device)
 					fw_unit_attributes,
 					&unit->attribute_group);
 
-		if (device_register(&unit->device) < 0)
-			goto skip_unit;
-
 		fw_device_get(device);
-		continue;
-
-	skip_unit:
-		kfree(unit);
+		if (device_register(&unit->device) < 0) {
+			put_device(&unit->device);
+			continue;
+		}
 	}
 }