The patch titled
gpiolib: fix device_create() result check
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
gpiolib-fix-device_create-result-check.patch
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Subject: gpiolib: fix device_create() result check
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In case of failure, device_create() returns not NULL but the error code.
The current code checks for non-NULL though which causes kernel oops in
sysfs_create_group() when device_create() fails. Check for error using
IS_ERR() and propagate the error value using PTR_ERR() instead of fixed
-ENODEV code returned now...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff -puN drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c~gpiolib-fix-device_create-result-check drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c~gpiolib-fix-device_create-result-check
+++ a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ int gpio_export(unsigned gpio, bool dire
dev = device_create(&gpio_class, desc->chip->dev, MKDEV(0, 0),
desc, ioname ? ioname : "gpio%d", gpio);
- if (dev) {
+ if (!IS_ERR(dev)) {
if (direction_may_change)
status = sysfs_create_group(&dev->kobj,
&gpio_attr_group);
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ int gpio_export(unsigned gpio, bool dire
if (status != 0)
device_unregister(dev);
} else
- status = -ENODEV;
+ status = PTR_ERR(dev);
if (status == 0)
set_bit(FLAG_EXPORT, &desc->flags);
}
@@ -800,11 +800,11 @@ static int gpiochip_export(struct gpio_c
mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock);
dev = device_create(&gpio_class, chip->dev, MKDEV(0, 0), chip,
"gpiochip%d", chip->base);
- if (dev) {
+ if (!IS_ERR(dev)) {
status = sysfs_create_group(&dev->kobj,
&gpiochip_attr_group);
} else
- status = -ENODEV;
+ status = PTR_ERR(dev);
chip->exported = (status == 0);
mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
gpiolib-fix-device_create-result-check.patch
3x59x-fix-pci-resource-management.patch
sound-core-pcm_timerc-use-lib-gcdc.patch
net-netfilter-ipvs-ip_vs_wrrc-use-lib-gcdc.patch
net-netfilter-ipvs-ip_vs_wrrc-use-lib-gcdc-fix.patch
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