From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:28:45 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: MIPS: ip22-gio: fix kfree() of static object
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MIPS: ip22-gio: fix kfree() of static object

The gio bus root device is a statically allocated object which must not
be freed by kfree() on failure to register the device or bus.

Fixes: 82242d28ff8b ("MIPS: IP22: Add missing put_device call")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 3.17
Cc: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
---

diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
index 9eec8842ffb70..a574441fa44bf 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ static struct {
 
 static void gio_bus_release(struct device *dev)
 {
-	kfree(dev);
 }
 
 static struct device gio_bus = {