RE: [PATCH] regulator: ab8500 - fix the logic to remove alreadyregistered regulators in error path

[Sundar R IYER]

Thanx!

BTW, could you also include the AB3100 as well into this patch? I derived it from 
the AB3100 implementation.

Linus, any comments?

Regards,
Sundar

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Axel Lin [mailto:axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 7:14 PM
>To: linux-kernel
>Cc: Liam Girdwood; Mark Brown; Sundar R IYER
>Subject: [PATCH] regulator: ab8500 - fix the logic to remove already registered
>regulators in error path
>
>In current implementation, ab8500_regulator_info[0].regulator is not
>unregistered if the error happen at i > 0.
>
>This patch fixes the resource leak and also improves the readability.
>
>Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
>---
>I think this change is better ( in readability ) than simply change "while (i > 0)" to
>"while (i >= 0)".
>
> drivers/regulator/ab8500.c |    4 +---
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c b/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
>index dc3f1a4..775688e 100644
>--- a/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
>+++ b/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
>@@ -368,11 +368,9 @@ static __devinit int ab8500_regulator_probe(struct
>platform_device *pdev)
> 			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register regulator %s\n",
> 					info->desc.name);
> 			/* when we fail, un-register all earlier regulators */
>-			i--;
>-			while (i > 0) {
>+			while (--i >= 0) {
> 				info = &ab8500_regulator_info[i];
> 				regulator_unregister(info->regulator);
>-				i--;
> 			}
> 			return err;
> 		}
>--
>1.7.0.4
>
>

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