Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered drivers
We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing
drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully.
Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo.
Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index dc030f1..c659961 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -700,8 +700,10 @@
}
kobject_uevent(&priv->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
- return error;
+ return 0;
out_unregister:
+ kfree(drv->p);
+ drv->p = NULL;
kobject_put(&priv->kobj);
out_put_bus:
bus_put(bus);
