The patch titled
drivers/char/raw.c: remove call to kobject_put().
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-char-rawc-remove-call-to-kobject_put.patch
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Subject: drivers/char/raw.c: remove call to kobject_put().
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
If cdev_add() fails, there is no justification for subsequently
calling kobject_put().
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/raw.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/char/raw.c~drivers-char-rawc-remove-call-to-kobject_put drivers/char/raw.c
--- a/drivers/char/raw.c~drivers-char-rawc-remove-call-to-kobject_put
+++ a/drivers/char/raw.c
@@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ static int __init raw_init(void)
cdev_init(&raw_cdev, &raw_fops);
ret = cdev_add(&raw_cdev, dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS);
if (ret) {
- kobject_put(&raw_cdev.kobj);
goto error_region;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
drivers-char-rawc-remove-call-to-kobject_put.patch
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