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* [Patch] Driver core: Fix error handling in bus_add_driver().
@ 2008-02-18 16:04 Cornelia Huck
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From: Cornelia Huck @ 2008-02-18 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg KH; +Cc: linux-kernel
- If the allocation of ->priv fails, the reference on the bus
must be dropped.
- If adding the kobject fails, kobject_put must be called to
clean things up.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
---
drivers/base/bus.c | 9 +++++----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -658,9 +658,10 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver
pr_debug("bus: '%s': add driver %s\n", bus->name, drv->name);
priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!priv)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
+ if (!priv) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_put_bus;
+ }
klist_init(&priv->klist_devices, NULL, NULL);
priv->driver = drv;
drv->p = priv;
@@ -668,7 +669,7 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver
error = kobject_init_and_add(&priv->kobj, &driver_ktype, NULL,
"%s", drv->name);
if (error)
- goto out_put_bus;
+ goto out_unregister;
if (drv->bus->p->drivers_autoprobe) {
error = driver_attach(drv);
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