Re: [patch 5/8] Platform: Fix error path in samsung-laptop init

From: David Herrmann
Date: Tue Sep 20 2011 - 08:22:00 EST


Hi Greg

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:50 AM, <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> samsung_init() should not return success if not all devices are initialized.
> Otherwise, samsung_exit() will dereference sdev NULL pointers and others.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
> @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ static int __init samsung_init(void)
>        sabi_iface = ioremap_nocache(ifaceP, 16);
>        if (!sabi_iface) {
>                pr_err("Can't remap %x\n", ifaceP);
> -               goto exit;
> +               goto error_no_signature;
>        }
>        if (debug) {
>                printk(KERN_DEBUG "ifaceP = 0x%08x\n", ifaceP);
> @@ -851,7 +851,6 @@ static int __init samsung_init(void)
>        if (retval)
>                goto error_file_create;
>
> -exit:
>        return 0;
>
>  error_file_create:
>
>
>

"From: " line is missing in this patch and several others of this
series. "git am" applies them with an email only so Matthew needs to
fix them when applying them or you could just resend them with
git-format-patch?

Thanks and regards
David
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