Merge branch 'omap/dt' into next/drivers

Needed for the omap timer changes.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 3f152b92a94a..afc2bb691780 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -471,9 +471,19 @@ static int exact_lock(dev_t dev, void *data)
  */
 int cdev_add(struct cdev *p, dev_t dev, unsigned count)
 {
+	int error;
+
 	p->dev = dev;
 	p->count = count;
-	return kobj_map(cdev_map, dev, count, NULL, exact_match, exact_lock, p);
+
+	error = kobj_map(cdev_map, dev, count, NULL,
+			 exact_match, exact_lock, p);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
+	kobject_get(p->kobj.parent);
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void cdev_unmap(dev_t dev, unsigned count)
@@ -498,14 +508,20 @@ void cdev_del(struct cdev *p)
 static void cdev_default_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
 	struct cdev *p = container_of(kobj, struct cdev, kobj);
+	struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent;
+
 	cdev_purge(p);
+	kobject_put(parent);
 }
 
 static void cdev_dynamic_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
 	struct cdev *p = container_of(kobj, struct cdev, kobj);
+	struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent;
+
 	cdev_purge(p);
 	kfree(p);
+	kobject_put(parent);
 }
 
 static struct kobj_type ktype_cdev_default = {