[PATCH 1/1] MIPS: APRP: Fix an issue when device_create() fails.

From: Sebastien Bourdelin
Date: Thu Jun 19 2014 - 16:32:19 EST


If a call to device_create() fails for a channel during the initialize
loop, we need to clean the devices entries already created before
leaving.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Bourdelin <sebastien.bourdelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c | 3 +++
arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c
index 758fb3c..d26dcc4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ int __init rtlx_module_init(void)
dev = device_create(mt_class, NULL, MKDEV(major, i), NULL,
"%s%d", RTLX_MODULE_NAME, i);
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
+ while (i--)
+ device_destroy(mt_class, MKDEV(major, i));
+
err = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto out_chrdev;
}
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c
index 5a66b97..cb95470 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ int __init rtlx_module_init(void)
dev = device_create(mt_class, NULL, MKDEV(major, i), NULL,
"%s%d", RTLX_MODULE_NAME, i);
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
+ while (i--)
+ device_destroy(mt_class, MKDEV(major, i));
+
err = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto out_chrdev;
}
--
1.8.3.4

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