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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	acpi4asus-u@pimp.vs19.net, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:25:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723112557.GG21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0707230404290.5535@shell2.speakeasy.net>

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:17:05AM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
 
> Here's a trivial patch for this one.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> asus-laptop: Sync with changes to led class
> 
> Driver was broken by commit f8a7c6fe14f556ca8eeddce258cb21392d0c3a2f
> 	leds: Convert from struct class_device to struct device
> 
> 	Convert the LEDs class from struct class_device to struct device
> 	since class_device is scheduled for removal.
> 
> Use (struct led_classdev).dev instead of (struct led_classdev).class_dev

It doesn't fix the real bug in there - if you look carefully at the code,
you'll see that we don't get to these checks if allocation fails halfway
through (and we leak in that case) *and* these checks are not needed at
all if failure happens elsewhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-23 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23  9:47 [1/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions Michal Piotrowski
2007-07-23 10:21 ` Al Viro
2007-07-23 11:17 ` Trent Piepho
2007-07-23 11:25   ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-07-23 13:12     ` Richard Purdie
2007-07-23 13:36       ` Al Viro
2007-07-23 14:32         ` Richard Purdie

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