From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA960C433F5 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 01:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S242459AbhLWBlH (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:41:07 -0500 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.187]:33898 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239866AbhLWBlG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:41:06 -0500 Received: from dggpeml500021.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.55]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4JKCZK02wHzcc0Q; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:40:41 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpeml500017.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.243) by dggpeml500021.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.20; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:41:04 +0800 Received: from [10.174.178.174] (10.174.178.174) by dggpeml500017.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.243) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.20; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:41:04 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH] chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add() From: Yang Yingliang To: , CC: , , , , , Greg KH References: <20211012130915.3426584-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> Message-ID: <1959fa74-b06c-b8bc-d14f-b71e5c4290ee@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:41:03 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20211012130915.3426584-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Originating-IP: [10.174.178.174] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems705-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.182) To dggpeml500017.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.243) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ping... On 2021/10/12 21:09, Yang Yingliang wrote: > If dev->devt is not set, cdev_device_add() will not add the cdev, > when device_add failed, cdev_del() is not needed, so delete cdev > only when dev->devt is set. > > Reported-by: Hulk Robot > Fixes: 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add helper function to register...") > Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang > --- > fs/char_dev.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c > index ba0ded7842a7..3f667292608c 100644 > --- a/fs/char_dev.c > +++ b/fs/char_dev.c > @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ int cdev_device_add(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev) > } > > rc = device_add(dev); > - if (rc) > + if (rc && dev->devt) > cdev_del(cdev); > > return rc;