On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:26:54PM +0530, devendrana...@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Devendra Naga <devendrana...@gmail.com>
>
Just fix your email client, so the from header is correct. These From
headers should be for when you forward an email from someone else.
> The class_create function can return a pointer with an error code
> stuffed inside it if it fails. Handled it to make sure
> device_register doesn't get an invalid pointer.
>
> Also removed assignment of rc to 0 in the beginning of function
> because it gets changed after the call to register_chrdev function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendrana...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
> b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
> index 2154665..72bfb29 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
> @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ module_exit(dgnc_cleanup_module);
> */
> static int dgnc_start(void)
> {
> - int rc = 0;
> + int rc;
Well done. :) Removing this was the right thing.
> unsigned long flags;
>
> /* make sure that the globals are init'd before we do anything else */
> @@ -271,6 +271,12 @@ static int dgnc_start(void)
> dgnc_Major = rc;
>
> dgnc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "dgnc_mgmt");
> + if (IS_ERR(dgnc_class)) {
> + rc = PTR_ERR(dgnc_class);
> + APR(("Can't creat dgnc class (%d)\n", rc));
No need for an error message here. The lower levels handle this.
> + goto bad;
> + }
> +
> device_create(dgnc_class, NULL,
> MKDEV(dgnc_Major, 0),
> NULL, "dgnc_mgmt");
> @@ -297,6 +303,10 @@ static int dgnc_start(void)
> add_timer(&dgnc_poll_timer);
>
> return rc;
This should be "return 0;"
Add a goto after dgnc_tty_preinit() while you are at it. Call the
patch "fix error handling in dgnc_start()".
> +
> +bad:
This label is not as useful as could be. We already know it's "bad"
when class_create() failed so it doesn't add any new information.
Call is something like: "err_unregister:".
> + unregister_chrdev(dgnc_Major, "dgnc");
> + return rc;
regards,
dan carpenter
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