The patch titled Driver core: fix error handling in bus_add_driver() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was driver-core-fix-error-handling-in-bus_add_driver.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Driver core: fix error handling in bus_add_driver() From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - If the allocation of ->priv fails, the reference on the bus must be dropped. - If adding the kobject fails, kobject_put must be called to clean things up. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/bus.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/base/bus.c~driver-core-fix-error-handling-in-bus_add_driver drivers/base/bus.c --- a/drivers/base/bus.c~driver-core-fix-error-handling-in-bus_add_driver +++ a/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -658,9 +658,10 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver pr_debug("bus: '%s': add driver %s\n", bus->name, drv->name); priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!priv) - return -ENOMEM; - + if (!priv) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out_put_bus; + } klist_init(&priv->klist_devices, NULL, NULL); priv->driver = drv; drv->p = priv; @@ -668,7 +669,7 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver error = kobject_init_and_add(&priv->kobj, &driver_ktype, NULL, "%s", drv->name); if (error) - goto out_put_bus; + goto out_unregister; if (drv->bus->p->drivers_autoprobe) { error = driver_attach(drv); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are origin.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html