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EDAC/mc: Fix error path ordering in edac_mc_alloc()

When the mci->pvt_info allocation in edac_mc_alloc() fails, the error path
will call put_device() which will end up calling the device's release
function.

However, the init ordering is wrong such that device_initialize() happens
*after* the failed allocation and thus the device itself and the release
function pointer are not initialized yet when they're called:

MCE: In-kernel MCE decoding enabled.
------------[ cut here ]------------
kobject: '(null)': is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
WARNING: lib/kobject.c:734 at kobject_put, CPU#22: systemd-udevd
CPU: 22 UID: 0 PID: 538 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1+ #2 PREEMPT(full)
RIP: 0010:kobject_put
Call Trace:
<TASK>
edac_mc_alloc+0xbe/0xe0 [edac_core]
amd64_edac_init+0x7a4/0xff0 [amd64_edac]
? __pfx_amd64_edac_init+0x10/0x10 [amd64_edac]
do_one_initcall
...

Reorder the calling sequence so that the device is initialized and thus the
release function pointer is properly set before it can be used.

This was found by Claude while reviewing another EDAC patch.

Fixes: 0bbb265f7089 ("EDAC/mc: Get rid of silly one-shot struct allocation in edac_mc_alloc()")
Reported-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4.5
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331121623.4871-1-bp@kernel.org

Borislav Petkov (AMD) 51520e03 6de23f81

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+3 -3
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
··· 369 369 if (!mci->layers) 370 370 goto error; 371 371 372 + mci->dev.release = mci_release; 373 + device_initialize(&mci->dev); 374 + 372 375 mci->pvt_info = kzalloc(sz_pvt, GFP_KERNEL); 373 376 if (!mci->pvt_info) 374 377 goto error; 375 - 376 - mci->dev.release = mci_release; 377 - device_initialize(&mci->dev); 378 378 379 379 /* setup index and various internal pointers */ 380 380 mci->mc_idx = mc_num;