This change moves the 'ida_simple_get()' call to be the first one in iio_device_alloc(). It cleans up the error path a bit as we don't need to call any kfree(dev) anymore. We allocate an IIO device only if we have managed to obtain a device ID. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c index f4daf19f2a3b..7c1d8a3ab2f3 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c @@ -1494,6 +1494,14 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(int sizeof_priv) { struct iio_dev *dev; size_t alloc_size; + int id; + + id = ida_simple_get(&iio_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); + if (id < 0) { + /* cannot use a dev_err as the name isn't available */ + pr_err("failed to get device id\n"); + return NULL; + } alloc_size = sizeof(struct iio_dev); if (sizeof_priv) { @@ -1506,6 +1514,8 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(int sizeof_priv) dev = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (dev) { + dev->id = id; + dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id); dev->dev.groups = dev->groups; dev->dev.type = &iio_device_type; dev->dev.bus = &iio_bus_type; @@ -1514,15 +1524,6 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(int sizeof_priv) mutex_init(&dev->mlock); mutex_init(&dev->info_exist_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->channel_attr_list); - - dev->id = ida_simple_get(&iio_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); - if (dev->id < 0) { - /* cannot use a dev_err as the name isn't available */ - pr_err("failed to get device id\n"); - kfree(dev); - return NULL; - } - dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->buffer_list); } -- 2.17.1