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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2010-03-12 16:14:42 -0600
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2010-07-27 12:03:48 -0500
commita91c1be21704113b023919826c6d531da46656ef (patch)
tree5ac2396f83dcfbf8596d5f5cfa11d4cd5f6cc118 /drivers/misc
parentaac3118d33e275a7b1134cb19227c982f4d43877 (diff)
[SCSI] enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error
we also need to clean up and free the cdev. Reported-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com> Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/enclosure.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index 48c84a58163e..00e5fcac8fdf 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -285,8 +285,11 @@ enclosure_component_register(struct enclosure_device *edev,
cdev->groups = enclosure_groups;
err = device_register(cdev);
- if (err)
- ERR_PTR(err);
+ if (err) {
+ ecomp->number = -1;
+ put_device(cdev);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+ }
return ecomp;
}