I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff888102740438 (size 8):
  comm "27", pid 859, jiffies 4295031351 (age 143.992s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    68 77 6d 6f 6e 30 00 00                          hwmon0..
  backtrace:
    [<00000000544b5996>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300
    [<00000000df0d62b9>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140
    [<00000000d3d2a3da>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190
    [<000000005f8f0f29>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140
    [<00000000b739e4b9>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0
    [<0000000095b69c25>] __hwmon_device_register+0xf19/0x1e50 [hwmon]
    [<00000000a7e65b52>] hwmon_device_register_with_info+0xcb/0x110 [hwmon]
    [<000000006f181e86>] devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info+0x85/0x100 [hwmon]
    [<0000000081bdc567>] tmp421_probe+0x2d2/0x465 [tmp421]
    [<00000000502cc3f8>] i2c_device_probe+0x4e1/0xbb0
    [<00000000f90bda3b>] really_probe+0x285/0xc30
    [<000000007eac7b77>] __driver_probe_device+0x35f/0x4f0
    [<000000004953d43d>] driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x140
    [<000000002ada2d41>] __device_attach_driver+0x24c/0x330
    [<00000000b3977977>] bus_for_each_drv+0x15d/0x1e0
    [<000000005bf2a8e3>] __device_attach+0x267/0x410

When device_register() returns an error, the name allocated in
dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used
instead of calling hwmon_dev_release() to give up the device
reference, then the name will be freed in kobject_cleanup().

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Fixes: bab2243c ("hwmon: Introduce hwmon_device_register_with_groups")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211012112758.2681084-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>