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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/base: error handling fixes
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:05:54 -0400,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> drivers/base/class:
> - class_device_rename(): function basically shat itself if anything
> failed, leaving things in an indeterminant state. If kmalloc() ever
> failed, it would dereference ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). Fix a bunch of bugs,
> over and above sysfs_create_link() error handling.
>
> - class_device_add(): add missing sysfs_remove_link() [fix leak] to error path
> - class_device_add(): handle sysfs_create_link() failure
>
> drivers/base/dmapool:
> - kmalloc() takes a GFP_xxx argument
> - handle device_create_file() failure
>
> drivers/base/platform:
> - properly handle errors (fix leak-on-err) in platform_bus_init()
>
> drivers/base/topology:
> - return sysfs error via NOTIFY_BAD

Hm, I already did fixes for some of these which are in -mm / in Greg's
tree. It would perhaps make sense if you rediffed against one of those
trees.

Cornelia
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