Merge branch 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Two low-impact workqueue commits.

  One fixes workqueue creation error path and the other removes the
  unused cancel_work()"

* 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: remove unused cancel_work()
  workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree()

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index bb9a519cbf50..6ec6ba65127b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3018,14 +3018,6 @@ static bool __cancel_work(struct work_struct *work, bool is_dwork)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/*
- * See cancel_delayed_work()
- */
-bool cancel_work(struct work_struct *work)
-{
-	return __cancel_work(work, false);
-}
-
 /**
  * cancel_delayed_work - cancel a delayed work
  * @dwork: delayed_work to cancel
@@ -5337,7 +5329,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 
 	ret = device_register(&wq_dev->dev);
 	if (ret) {
-		kfree(wq_dev);
+		put_device(&wq_dev->dev);
 		wq->wq_dev = NULL;
 		return ret;
 	}