Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: vme: fix potential infinite loop

From: Manohar Vanga
Date: Wed Feb 23 2011 - 04:29:57 EST


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:36:16PM +0100, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> Fix a bug in vme_register_bridge that resulted in an infinite loop if
> device_register failed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vme/vme.c | 5 +++++
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> index 88bf455..7eb4568 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
> @@ -1364,9 +1364,14 @@ int vme_register_bridge(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
> return retval;
>
> err_reg:
> + /*
> + * Ignore the failed driver and unregister the rest
> + */
> + i--

Ugh. Missing semicolon here. I'll resend the corrected patch.

Thanks,
Manohar Vanga
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