Commit a306eea4 authored by Cornelia Huck's avatar Cornelia Huck Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on error 



Check for return code of device_create_file() and correct cleanup in
the error case in device_add().

Signed-off-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 513e7337

drivers/base/core.c

+7 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -433,14 +433,16 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) 
	if (dev->driver)

		dev->uevent_attr.attr.owner = dev->driver->owner;

	dev->uevent_attr.store = store_uevent;

	device_create_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);

	error = device_create_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);

	if (error)

		goto attrError;



	if (MAJOR(dev->devt)) {

		struct device_attribute *attr;

		attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL);

		if (!attr) {

			error = -ENOMEM;

			goto PMError;

			goto ueventattrError;

		}

		attr->attr.name = "dev";

		attr->attr.mode = S_IRUGO;
@@ -450,7 +452,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) 
		error = device_create_file(dev, attr);

		if (error) {

			kfree(attr);

			goto attrError;

			goto ueventattrError;

		}



		dev->devt_attr = attr;
@@ -507,6 +509,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) 
		device_remove_file(dev, dev->devt_attr);

		kfree(dev->devt_attr);

	}

 ueventattrError:

	device_remove_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);

 attrError:

	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);

	kobject_del(&dev->kobj);