Re: [PATCH] enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:50 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> NOTE: I'm afraid I'm unable to test this; please consider this more a
> bug report than a complete patch.

It's a good bug report, thanks.  It looks like there's an unreleased
cdev pointer along that path too, so this should be the final fix.

James

---

diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index 1eac626..68e4cd7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -284,8 +284,11 @@ enclosure_component_register(struct enclosure_device *edev,
 	cdev->groups = enclosure_groups;
 
 	err = device_register(cdev);
-	if (err)
-		ERR_PTR(err);
+	if (err) {
+		ecomp->number = -1;
+		put_device(cdev);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+	}
 
 	return ecomp;
 }