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Message-ID: <20110920161550.GA32194@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:15:50 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/8] Platform: Fix error path in samsung-laptop init

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:21:54PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi Greg
> 
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:50 AM,  <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > samsung_init() should not return success if not all devices are initialized.
> > Otherwise, samsung_exit() will dereference sdev NULL pointers and others.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>
> > Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c |    3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
> > @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ static int __init samsung_init(void)
> >        sabi_iface = ioremap_nocache(ifaceP, 16);
> >        if (!sabi_iface) {
> >                pr_err("Can't remap %x\n", ifaceP);
> > -               goto exit;
> > +               goto error_no_signature;
> >        }
> >        if (debug) {
> >                printk(KERN_DEBUG "ifaceP = 0x%08x\n", ifaceP);
> > @@ -851,7 +851,6 @@ static int __init samsung_init(void)
> >        if (retval)
> >                goto error_file_create;
> >
> > -exit:
> >        return 0;
> >
> >  error_file_create:
> >
> >
> >
> 
> "From: " line is missing in this patch and several others of this
> series. "git am" applies them with an email only so Matthew needs to
> fix them when applying them or you could just resend them with
> git-format-patch?

Crap I messed this up again, my mistake.  I'll go fix this up right now.
The original patch is correct, 'quilt mail' is the one that drops the
proper "From:" authorship on these messages when sending them out, which
is what I am using here.

I'll resend right now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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