Instead of trying to cope with the failed memory allocation and still leaving the kernel in a semi-broken state (the subdevices will be released but never re-probed) simply abort. The kernel have already printed a warning about allocation failure but keep the error printout to ease pinpointing the problem if it happens. By doing this we can increase the readability of this complex function which puts it in a better state to separate the v4l2 housekeeping tasks from the re-probing of devices. It also serves to prepare for adding subnotifers. Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c index 0acf288d7227ba97..67852f0f2d3000c9 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ void v4l2_async_notifier_unregister(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier) if (!dev) { dev_err(notifier->v4l2_dev->dev, "Failed to allocate device cache!\n"); + return; } mutex_lock(&list_lock); @@ -234,23 +235,13 @@ void v4l2_async_notifier_unregister(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier) /* If we handled USB devices, we'd have to lock the parent too */ device_release_driver(d); - /* - * Store device at the device cache, in order to call - * put_device() on the final step - */ - if (dev) - dev[i++] = d; - else - put_device(d); + dev[i++] = d; } mutex_unlock(&list_lock); /* * Call device_attach() to reprobe devices - * - * NOTE: If dev allocation fails, i is 0, and the whole loop won't be - * executed. */ while (i--) { struct device *d = dev[i]; -- 2.13.1