From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit ca4383a3947a83286bc9b9c598a1f55e867871d7 upstream. Add missing error handling when registering the tty device at port probe. This avoids trying to remove an uninitialised character device when the port device is removed. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/bus.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c index 95ee3e734209..a5500cf12e0e 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struct device *dev) { struct usb_serial_driver *driver; struct usb_serial_port *port; + struct device *tty_dev; int retval = 0; int minor; @@ -80,7 +81,15 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struct device *dev) } minor = port->minor; - tty_register_device(usb_serial_tty_driver, minor, dev); + tty_dev = tty_register_device(usb_serial_tty_driver, minor, dev); + if (IS_ERR(tty_dev)) { + retval = PTR_ERR(tty_dev); + device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_port_number); + if (driver->port_remove) + driver->port_remove(port); + goto exit_with_autopm; + } + dev_info(&port->serial->dev->dev, "%s converter now attached to ttyUSB%d\n", driver->description, minor); -- 2.3.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html