From stern@rowland.harvard.edu Thu Oct 5 14:03:44 2006 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:03:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern To: Greg KH Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , Jiri Kosina , Castet Matthieu , Takashi Iwai , Andrew Morton Subject: Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing Message-ID: This patch (as797) fixes device_add() in the driver core. It needs to pay attention when the driver for a new device reports an error. At the same time, since bus_remove_device() undoes the effects of both bus_add_device() and bus_attach_device(), it needs to check whether the bus_attach_device step failed. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/bus.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/base/core.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/bus.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -439,8 +439,10 @@ void bus_remove_device(struct device * d sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "bus"); sysfs_remove_link(&dev->bus->devices.kobj, dev->bus_id); device_remove_attrs(dev->bus, dev); - dev->is_registered = 0; - klist_del(&dev->knode_bus); + if (dev->is_registered) { + dev->is_registered = 0; + klist_del(&dev->knode_bus); + } pr_debug("bus %s: remove device %s\n", dev->bus->name, dev->bus_id); device_release_driver(dev); put_bus(dev->bus); --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/core.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/core.c @@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) if ((error = bus_add_device(dev))) goto BusError; kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); - bus_attach_device(dev); + if ((error = bus_attach_device(dev))) + goto AttachError; if (parent) klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children); @@ -498,6 +499,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) kfree(class_name); put_device(dev); return error; + AttachError: + bus_remove_device(dev); BusError: device_pm_remove(dev); PMError: