The patch titled
driver core: handles kobject_uevent failure while device_add
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add.patch
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Subject: driver core: handles kobject_uevent failure while device_add
From: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/base/core.c~driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add drivers/base/core.c
--- a/drivers/base/core.c~driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add
+++ a/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -662,8 +662,11 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
goto PMError;
if ((error = bus_add_device(dev)))
goto BusError;
- if (!dev->uevent_suppress)
- kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+ if (!dev->uevent_suppress) {
+ error = kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+ if (error)
+ goto UeventError;
+ }
bus_attach_device(dev);
if (parent)
klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children);
@@ -683,6 +686,9 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
kfree(class_name);
put_device(dev);
return error;
+
+ UeventError:
+ bus_remove_device(dev);
BusError:
device_pm_remove(dev);
PMError:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dmonakhov@xxxxx are
origin.patch
driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add.patch
driver-core-handle-sysfs_op-failure-while-device_add.patch
git-libata-all.patch
freevxfs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-fix.patch
reiserfs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-during-resize.patch
ext3-dirindex-error-pointer-issues.patch
floppy-handle-device_create_file-failure-while-init.patch
splice-partial-write-handling-fix.patch
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