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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2006-09-22 11:37:13 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-10-18 12:49:55 -0700
commita306eea40952e6365301e8a2f7d5ffa9c6a1921b (patch)
tree5a5b74ef17286728d9b3d5a1eee4e21c73b6e9e6 /drivers
parent513e7337adc32cdfbffecb99953e45a44e812c2d (diff)
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driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on error
Check for return code of device_create_file() and correct cleanup in the error case in device_add(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index aee3743bd4a3..365f709715ef 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -433,14 +433,16 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
if (dev->driver)
dev->uevent_attr.attr.owner = dev->driver->owner;
dev->uevent_attr.store = store_uevent;
- device_create_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);
+ error = device_create_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);
+ if (error)
+ goto attrError;
if (MAJOR(dev->devt)) {
struct device_attribute *attr;
attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!attr) {
error = -ENOMEM;
- goto PMError;
+ goto ueventattrError;
}
attr->attr.name = "dev";
attr->attr.mode = S_IRUGO;
@@ -450,7 +452,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
error = device_create_file(dev, attr);
if (error) {
kfree(attr);
- goto attrError;
+ goto ueventattrError;
}
dev->devt_attr = attr;
@@ -507,6 +509,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
device_remove_file(dev, dev->devt_attr);
kfree(dev->devt_attr);
}
+ ueventattrError:
+ device_remove_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);
attrError:
kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&dev->kobj);