Re: [PATCH 04/14] memstick: core: fix device_register() error handling

[Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:50 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 00:49, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >  int device_register(struct device *dev)
> > >  {
> > > +       int retval;
> > > +
> > >        device_initialize(dev);
> > > -       return device_add(dev);
> > > +       retval = device_add(dev);
> > > +       if (retval)
> > > +               put_device(dev);
> > > +       return retval;
> > >  }
> > 
> > > Kay, what am I missing here, why can't we just do this?  Hm, the
> > > side-affect might be that if device_register() fails, NO ONE had better
> > > touch that device again, as it might have just been freed from the
> > > system.  I wonder if that will cause problems...
> > 
> > That looks right, besides that there might be callers already doing
> > this. Which needs to be checked.
> 
> Yes, it would be.  I'll go through the tree.

As I see with this in-device_register patch we should check for 2 things:

1) nobody should call put_device() because of failed device_register().

2) dev has to be already got, other words its ref counter should not be zero.

Correct?

-- 
Vasiliy