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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Rahul Ruikar <rahul.ruikar@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	nm127@freemail.hu, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND/PATCH] usb: gadget: goku_udc: Fix error path
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:22:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101004122214.GA5692@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286135940-2364-1-git-send-email-rahul.ruikar@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:29:00AM +0530, Rahul Ruikar wrote:
> call put_device() when device_register() fails.
> 

Sorry I didn't realize what you were trying to do here.  This is not
correct at all.

The right thing is to fix device_register() to call put_device() itself.
It's a bit involved, because all the callers will need to be audited but
someone is working on this I think.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03 19:59 [RESEND/PATCH] usb: gadget: goku_udc: Fix error path Rahul Ruikar
2010-10-04 12:22 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-10-04 13:24   ` Rahul Ruikar
2010-10-04 14:10     ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-05 13:20   ` Greg KH
2010-10-05 16:53     ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-05 16:55     ` [PATCH] " Dan Carpenter

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