From f1ffdfcc52744ed264041741020364cfbad9c0de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Abbott Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:06:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c index 2460803..5b15033 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) { -- 2.7.4