There were a two issues here. 1) We returned PTR_ERR(NULL) which means success if class_create() failed. 2) If alloc_chrdev_region() failed then we should clean up before returning. Also kernel style is to have "error handling" as opposed to "success handling". In the original code checking for "if (!status) " is confusing and this bad style is what lead to bug #2. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c index 220035f..cecdc75 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c @@ -972,17 +972,22 @@ int ghid_setup(struct usb_gadget *g, int count) hidg_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "hidg"); if (IS_ERR(hidg_class)) { + status = PTR_ERR(hidg_class); hidg_class = NULL; - return PTR_ERR(hidg_class); + return status; } status = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev, 0, count, "hidg"); - if (!status) { - major = MAJOR(dev); - minors = count; + if (status) { + class_destroy(hidg_class); + hidg_class = NULL; + return status; } - return status; + major = MAJOR(dev); + minors = count; + + return 0; } void ghid_cleanup(void) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html