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Message-Id: <1353000133-13462-1-git-send-email-gmate.amit@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:52:13 +0530
From:	Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	seanm@...nm.ca, s.l-h@....de, tim.gardner@...onical.com,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: rtl8192e: rtl_core.c: Audit the return value of register_netdev()

Inspect the return value of register_netdev() in the driver probe routine and
return -ENODEV in case of error.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
index 81134d3..f68df24 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
@@ -2955,7 +2955,8 @@ static int __devinit rtl8192_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 	netif_stop_queue(dev);
 
-	register_netdev(dev);
+	if (register_netdev(dev))
+		goto err_free_irq;
 	RT_TRACE(COMP_INIT, "dev name: %s\n", dev->name);
 
 	rtl8192_proc_init_one(dev);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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