Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:39:13 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: cxgb3: add missed destroy_workqueue in cxgb3 probe failure | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:21:17 +0800
> The driver forgets to call destroy_workqueue when cxgb3 probe fails. > Add the missed calls to fix it. > > Fixes: 4d22de3e6cc4 ("Add support for the latest 1G/10G Chelsio adapter, T3.") > Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> > Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
You have to handle the case that the probing of one or more devices fails yet one or more others succeed.
And you can't know in advance how this will play out.
This is why the workqueue is unconditionally created, and only destroyed on module remove.
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