From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del().

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/char/tty_io.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/char/tty_io.c~tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c~tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del
+++ a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3094,7 +3094,6 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_drive
 	driver->cdev.owner = driver->owner;
 	error = cdev_add(&driver->cdev, dev, driver->num);
 	if (error) {
-		cdev_del(&driver->cdev);
 		unregister_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num);
 		driver->ttys = NULL;
 		driver->termios = driver->termios_locked = NULL;
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