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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:03:11 +0200
From: Raffaele Recalcati <raffaele.recalcati@...cino.it>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] net/ethernet: ks8851_mll unregister_netdev() before
freeing
On 09:31 Wed 06 Jun , Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We added another error condition here, but if we were to hit it then
> we need to unregister_netdev() before doing the free_netdev().
> Otherwise we would hit the BUG_ON() in free_netdev():
>
> BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED);
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---
> Static checker stuff. I don't have this hardware.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
> index 70bd329..875dd5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
> @@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ static int __devinit ks8851_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (!pdata) {
> netdev_err(netdev, "No platform data\n");
> err = -ENODEV;
> - goto err_register;
> + goto err_pdata;
> }
> memcpy(ks->mac_addr, pdata->mac_addr, 6);
> if (!is_valid_ether_addr(ks->mac_addr)) {
> @@ -1626,6 +1626,8 @@ static int __devinit ks8851_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> (id >> 8) & 0xff, (id >> 4) & 0xf, (id >> 1) & 0x7);
> return 0;
>
> +err_pdata:
> + unregister_netdev(netdev);
> err_register:
> err_get_irq:
> iounmap(ks->hw_addr_cmd);
Tested-by: Raffaele Recalcati <raffaele.recalcati@...cino.it>
[ 2.274993] ks8851_mll ks8851_mll: (unregistered net_device): message enable is 0
[ 2.282897] ks8851_mll ks8851_mll: (unregistered net_device): the selftest passes
[ 2.302246] ks8851_mll ks8851_mll: eth0: No platform data
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