[PATCH] epca: privent from panic on tty_register_driver() failure

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 05:06:09 EST


This patch makes epca fail on initialization failure instead of panic.

Cc: "Digi International, Inc" <Eng.Linux@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>

drivers/char/epca.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: work-fault-inject/drivers/char/epca.c
===================================================================
--- work-fault-inject.orig/drivers/char/epca.c 2006-10-09 15:06:32.000000000 +0900
+++ work-fault-inject/drivers/char/epca.c 2006-10-09 15:09:14.000000000 +0900
@@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@ static int __init pc_init(void)
int crd;
struct board_info *bd;
unsigned char board_id = 0;
+ int err = -ENOMEM;

int pci_boards_found, pci_count;

@@ -1167,13 +1168,11 @@ static int __init pc_init(void)

pc_driver = alloc_tty_driver(MAX_ALLOC);
if (!pc_driver)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto out1;

pc_info = alloc_tty_driver(MAX_ALLOC);
- if (!pc_info) {
- put_tty_driver(pc_driver);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
+ if (!pc_info)
+ goto out2;

/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
If epca_setup has not been ran by LILO set num_cards to defaults; copy
@@ -1373,11 +1372,17 @@ static int __init pc_init(void)

} /* End for each card */

- if (tty_register_driver(pc_driver))
- panic("Couldn't register Digi PC/ driver");
+ err = tty_register_driver(pc_driver);
+ if (err) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't register Digi PC/ driver");
+ goto out3;
+ }

- if (tty_register_driver(pc_info))
- panic("Couldn't register Digi PC/ info ");
+ err = tty_register_driver(pc_info);
+ if (err) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't register Digi PC/ info ");
+ goto out4;
+ }

/* -------------------------------------------------------------------
Start up the poller to check for events on all enabled boards
@@ -1388,6 +1393,15 @@ static int __init pc_init(void)
mod_timer(&epca_timer, jiffies + HZ/25);
return 0;

+out4:
+ tty_unregister_driver(pc_driver);
+out3:
+ put_tty_driver(pc_driver);
+out2:
+ put_tty_driver(pc_info);
+out1:
+ return err;
+
} /* End pc_init */

/* ------------------ Begin post_fep_init ---------------------- */
-
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