linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: omap_hsmmc: ensure probe returns error upon resource failure

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Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:23:35 -0400
From:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>
To:	"S\, Venkatraman" <svenkatr@...com>
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Balaji T K <balajitk@...com>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: omap_hsmmc: ensure probe returns error upon resource failure

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 12 2012, S, Venkatraman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com> wrote:
>> If platform_get_resource_by_name() fails, driver probe is aborted an
>> should return an error so the driver is not bound to the device.
>>
>> However, in the current error path of platform_get_resource_by_name(),
>> probe returns zero since the return value (ret) is not properly set.
>> With a zero return value, the driver core assumes probe was successful
>> and will bind the driver to the device.
>>
>> Fix this by ensuring that probe returns an error code in this failure
>> path.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
>
> Good catch.
> Acked-by: Venkatraman S <svenkatr@...com>

Thanks, pushed to mmc-next for 3.6.

- Chris.
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