Re: [PATCH] SH/Dreamcast - fix regressions, whitespace and memory

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:27:55AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:29 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:00:47PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > From: Adrian McMenamin
> > > 
> > > This patch fixes the regression noted here:
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/26/189 as well as whitespace issues in the
> > > previous commit of this driver and the memory leaks noted here:
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/2/143 (as well as one or two other minor
> > > cleanups).
> > 
> > Which portion of the patch fixes the kobject WARN_ON()?
> 
> 
> 
> +	if (mdev->registered = 0) {
> +		retval = device_register(&mdev->dev);
> +		if (retval) {
> +			printk(KERN_INFO
> +			"Maple bus: Attempt to register device"
> +			" (%x, %x) failed.\n",
> +			mdev->port, mdev->unit);
> +			maple_free_dev(mdev);
> +			mdev = NULL;
> +			return;
> +		}
> +		mdev->registered = 1;
> +	}
>  }
> 
> 
> Specifically the check on mdev->registered

So the code path could cause devices to be registered more than once?
That seems broken, as no other bus that I know of needs such a check :(

Is there a way to fix the root problem here, instead of this type of
change?

thanks,

greg k-h