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authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>2014-01-21 17:06:34 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-07 11:08:46 -0800
commitf1ffdfcc52744ed264041741020364cfbad9c0de (patch)
treeb0b9bf3f660558059aad898f56ea5a1193617110 /drivers/staging
parent630127f36784e59e995c206c37825a36a34d346c (diff)
staging: comedi: fix too early cleanup in comedi_auto_config()
`comedi_auto_config()` is usually called from the probe routine of a low-level comedi driver to allocate and auto-configure a comedi device. Part of this involves calling the low-level driver's `auto_attach()` handler, and if that is successful, `comedi_device_postconfig()` tries to complete the configuration of the comedi device. If either of those fail, `comedi_device_detach()` is called to clean up, and `comedi_release_hardware_device()` is called to remove the dynamically allocated comedi device. Unfortunately, `comedi_device_detach()` clears the `hw_dev` member of the `struct comedi_device` (indirectly via `comedi_clear_hw_dev()`), and that stops `comedi_release_hardware_device()` finding the comedi device associated with the hardware device, so the comedi device won't be removed properly. Since `comedi_release_hardware_device()` also calls `comedi_device_detach()` (assuming it finds the comedi device associated with the hardware device), the fix is to remove the direct call to `comedi_device_detach()` from `comedi_auto_config()` and let the call to `comedi_release_hardware_device()` take care of it. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
index 246080316c90..5b15033a94bf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
@@ -616,8 +616,6 @@ int comedi_auto_config(struct device *hardware_device,
ret = driver->auto_attach(dev, context);
if (ret >= 0)
ret = comedi_device_postconfig(dev);
- if (ret < 0)
- comedi_device_detach(dev);
mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
if (ret < 0) {