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-next 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 also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
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