On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> During probe the driver allocates dummy I2C device for RTC with i2c_new_dummy() but it does not check the return value of this call.
>
> In case of error (i2c_new_device(): memory allocation failure or I2C
> address cannot be used) this function returns NULL which is later used
> by i2c_unregister_device().
>
> If i2c_new_dummy() fails for RTC device, fail also the probe for
> main MFD driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/mfd/max8998.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c
> index 612ca404e150..61ea1826f8b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c
> @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static int max8998_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> mutex_init(&max8998->iolock);
>
> max8998->rtc = i2c_new_dummy(i2c->adapter, RTC_I2C_ADDR);
> + if (!max8998->rtc) {
> + dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to allocate I2C device for RTC\n");
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> i2c_set_clientdata(max8998->rtc, max8998);
>
> max8998_irq_init(max8998);
Applied, thanks.
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