ACPI/AC: prevent OOPS on some boxes due to missing check power_supply_register()...
authorLan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:29:16 +0000 (13:29 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:31:37 +0000 (08:31 -0700)
commitc1542109ac67110d3072fabb23e4604be0ff7554
tree6be846158ca9621deb86bc5e8a54cc6a991ea5fc
parent8ebdf76ba264031c60e8dc720775833e0ab6512d
ACPI/AC: prevent OOPS on some boxes due to missing check power_supply_register() return value check

commit f197ac13f6eeb351b31250b9ab7d0da17434ea36 upstream.

In the ac.c, power_supply_register()'s return value is not checked.

As a result, the driver's add() ops may return success
even though the device failed to initialize.

For example, some BIOS may describe two ACADs in the same DSDT.
The second ACAD device will fail to register,
but ACPI driver's add() ops returns sucessfully.
The ACPI device will receive ACPI notification and cause OOPS.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772730

Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/acpi/ac.c