linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix parport_serial_pci_resume() ignoring return value from pci_enable

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Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Phil Blundell <philb@....org>, Tim Waugh <tim@...erelk.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-parport@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix parport_serial_pci_resume() ignoring return value
 from pci_enable_device()

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Russell King wrote:

> In this case, you're calling parport_serial_pci_remove() in the failure 
> path.  That's fine, but this opens the possibility of it being called 
> twice - once on resume failure and once when the device/driver is 
> removed.  If this happens, we dereference a NULL pointer. *BAD*.

You are right, I missed this.

I am not currently sure what the proper fix is, though. We might be also 
ending doing very bad things, when we ignore the error returned by 
pci_enable_device() and proceed operating on non-existing device.

Thanks for spotting this,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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