This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init() to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From a9332e9ad09c2644c99058fcf6ae2f355e93ce74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:35:34 +0100 Subject: staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init() There is a clean-up bug in the core comedi module initialization functions, `comedi_init()`. If the `comedi_num_legacy_minors` module parameter is non-zero (and valid), it creates that many "legacy" devices and registers them in SysFS. A failure causes the function to clean up and return an error. Unfortunately, it fails to destroy the "comedi" class that was created earlier. Fix it by adding a call to `class_destroy(comedi_class)` at the appropriate place in the clean-up sequence. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.9+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c index f191c2a75732..4ed485a99c68 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c @@ -2915,6 +2915,7 @@ static int __init comedi_init(void) dev = comedi_alloc_board_minor(NULL); if (IS_ERR(dev)) { comedi_cleanup_board_minors(); + class_destroy(comedi_class); cdev_del(&comedi_cdev); unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(COMEDI_MAJOR, 0), COMEDI_NUM_MINORS); -- 2.13.1