Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:36:00 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions |
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:12:07PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > Fix the leak where asus-led registration fails half way through.
Frankly, I don't think that any post-factum checks are needed. We should just bail out at the point of failure. See the patch posted earlier... BTW, your variant does destroy_workqueue() when no create_singlethreaded_workqueue() had been called. FWIW, here's the patch I'm talking about:
diff --git a/drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c b/drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c index f753060..6b89854 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c @@ -1067,19 +1067,16 @@ static void asus_backlight_exit(void) } #define ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(object) \ - if(object##_led.class_dev \ - && !IS_ERR(object##_led.class_dev)) \ - led_classdev_unregister(&object##_led) + led_classdev_unregister(&object##_led) static void asus_led_exit(void) { + destroy_workqueue(led_workqueue); ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(mled); ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(tled); ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(pled); ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(rled); ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(gled); - - destroy_workqueue(led_workqueue); } static void __exit asus_laptop_exit(void) @@ -1135,29 +1132,42 @@ static int asus_led_init(struct device *dev) rv = ASUS_LED_REGISTER(mled, dev); if (rv) - return rv; + goto out; rv = ASUS_LED_REGISTER(tled, dev); if (rv) - return rv; + goto out1; rv = ASUS_LED_REGISTER(rled, dev); if (rv) - return rv; + goto out2; rv = ASUS_LED_REGISTER(pled, dev); if (rv) - return rv; + goto out3; rv = ASUS_LED_REGISTER(gled, dev); if (rv) - return rv; + goto out4; led_workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("led_workqueue"); if (!led_workqueue) - return -ENOMEM; + goto out5; return 0; +out5: + rv = -ENOMEM; + ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(gled); +out4: + ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(pled); +out3: + ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(rled); +out2: + ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(tled); +out1: + ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(mled); +out: + return rv; } static int __init asus_laptop_init(void) -- 1.5.3.GIT - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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