On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > During probe the driver allocates dummy I2C device for RTC with > i2c_new_dummy() but it does not check the return value of this call. > > In case of error (i2c_new_device(): memory allocation failure or I2C > address cannot be used) this function returns NULL which is later used > by i2c_unregister_device(). > > If i2c_new_dummy() fails for RTC device, fail also the probe for > main MFD driver. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > --- > drivers/mfd/max8998.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c > index 612ca404e150..61ea1826f8b4 100644 > --- a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c > +++ b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c > @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static int max8998_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c, > mutex_init(&max8998->iolock); > > max8998->rtc = i2c_new_dummy(i2c->adapter, RTC_I2C_ADDR); > + if (!max8998->rtc) { > + dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to allocate I2C device for RTC\n"); > + return -ENODEV; > + } > i2c_set_clientdata(max8998->rtc, max8998); > > max8998_irq_init(max8998);
Applied, thanks. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
