diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
index 098fc34c48293..11850fd8c3b5b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ static int cscfg_create_device(void)
 
 	err = device_register(dev);
 	if (err)
-		cscfg_dev_release(dev);
+		put_device(dev);
 
 create_dev_exit_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&cscfg_mutex);