[PATCH v2] hwmon: (gpio-fan) Fix fan_ctrl_init error path

From: Axel Lin
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 03:38:10 EST


In current implementation, the sysfs entries is not removed before return -ENODEV.

Creating the sysfs attribute should be the last thing done by the function,
after all the rest has been successful.
Otherwise there is a small window during which user-space can access the attribute
but the driver isn't ready to deal with the requests.

Fix it by moving sysfs_create_group to be the last thing done by the function.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c
index aa701a1..f141a1d 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c
@@ -376,10 +376,6 @@ static int fan_ctrl_init(struct gpio_fan_data *fan_data,
}
}

- err = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &gpio_fan_ctrl_group);
- if (err)
- goto err_free_gpio;
-
fan_data->num_ctrl = num_ctrl;
fan_data->ctrl = ctrl;
fan_data->num_speed = pdata->num_speed;
@@ -391,6 +387,10 @@ static int fan_ctrl_init(struct gpio_fan_data *fan_data,
goto err_free_gpio;
}

+ err = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &gpio_fan_ctrl_group);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_free_gpio;
+
return 0;

err_free_gpio:
--
1.7.2



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