Patch "staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init()" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init()

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     staging-comedi-fix-clean-up-of-comedi_class-in-comedi_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a9332e9ad09c2644c99058fcf6ae2f355e93ce74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:35:34 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init()

From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>

commit a9332e9ad09c2644c99058fcf6ae2f355e93ce74 upstream.

There is a clean-up bug in the core comedi module initialization
functions, `comedi_init()`.  If the `comedi_num_legacy_minors` module
parameter is non-zero (and valid), it creates that many "legacy" devices
and registers them in SysFS.  A failure causes the function to clean up
and return an error.  Unfortunately, it fails to destroy the "comedi"
class that was created earlier.  Fix it by adding a call to
`class_destroy(comedi_class)` at the appropriate place in the clean-up
sequence.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2901,6 +2901,7 @@ static int __init comedi_init(void)
 		dev = comedi_alloc_board_minor(NULL);
 		if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
 			comedi_cleanup_board_minors();
+			class_destroy(comedi_class);
 			cdev_del(&comedi_cdev);
 			unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(COMEDI_MAJOR, 0),
 						 COMEDI_NUM_MINORS);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abbotti@mev.co.uk are

queue-4.11/staging-comedi-fix-clean-up-of-comedi_class-in-comedi_init.patch