linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/11] Driver core: Fix error handling in bus_add

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Message-Id: <1203637687-7273-5-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:48:01 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 05/11] Driver core: Fix error handling in bus_add_driver().

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>

- 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@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 drivers/base/bus.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 055989e..2d207ad 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -658,9 +658,10 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
 	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 *drv)
 	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);
-- 
1.5.4

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