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* [PATCH] regulator: ab8500 - fix the logic to remove already registered regulators in error path
@ 2010-08-14 13:44 Axel Lin
  2010-08-14 14:34 ` Sundar R IYER
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Axel Lin @ 2010-08-14 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Liam Girdwood, Mark Brown, Sundar R Iyer

In current implementation, ab8500_regulator_info[0].regulator is not
unregistered if the error happen at i > 0.

This patch fixes the resource leak and also improves the readability.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
---
I think this change is better ( in readability ) than simply change "while (i > 0)" to "while (i >= 0)".

 drivers/regulator/ab8500.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c b/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
index dc3f1a4..775688e 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/ab8500.c
@@ -368,11 +368,9 @@ static __devinit int ab8500_regulator_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register regulator %s\n",
 					info->desc.name);
 			/* when we fail, un-register all earlier regulators */
-			i--;
-			while (i > 0) {
+			while (--i >= 0) {
 				info = &ab8500_regulator_info[i];
 				regulator_unregister(info->regulator);
-				i--;
 			}
 			return err;
 		}
-- 
1.7.0.4




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2010-08-14 13:44 [PATCH] regulator: ab8500 - fix the logic to remove already registered regulators in error path Axel Lin
2010-08-14 14:34 ` Sundar R IYER
2010-08-15 12:03   ` Linus Walleij
2010-08-14 14:39 ` Sundar R IYER
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