Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Fix device_add_attrs() error code path

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, December 12, 2013 03:13:33 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 06:11:02AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > If the addition of dev_attr_online fails, device_add_attrs() should
> > remove device attribute groups as well as type and class attribute
> > groups before returning an error code.  Make that happen.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Does this need tob e in 3.13-final?  Or can it wait for 3.14-rc1?  The
> odds that this file creation would ever fail is _really_ low, right?

Yeah, it's more of a cleanup than a fix, so 3.14-rc1 should be fine.

Thanks,
Rafael

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