4.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> commit a9332e9ad09c2644c99058fcf6ae2f355e93ce74 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c @@ -2901,6 +2901,7 @@ 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);