linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds-pca955x: Add proper error handling and fix bogus memory handling

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Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:59:01 -0500
From:	Nate Case <ncase@...-inc.com>
To:	Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
Cc:	rpurdie@...ys.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds-pca955x: Add proper error handling and fix bogus
	memory handling

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 00:45 +0200, Sven Wegener wrote:
> Check the return value of led_classdev_register and unregister all
> registered
> devices, if registering one device fails. Also the dynamic memory
> handling is
> totally bogus. You can't allocate multiple chunks via kzalloc() and
> expect
> them to be in order later. I wonder how this ever worked.

Yikes.  Good catch.  To be honest, I developed this for an embedded
system where it was always built into the kernel.  So the
pca955x_remove() case never would have been tested.  The assumption
about the chunks being in order probably came from a cut-and-paste from
another driver.

I'll test your patch and also build it as a module to make sure
unloading works properly.  Thanks.

-- 
Nate Case <ncase@...-inc.com>

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