From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] pxa168_eth: fix error handling in prope Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100824.145047.179951528.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100824165333.GI29330@bicker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ssanap@marvell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: error27@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53396 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756100Ab0HXVu3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:50:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100824165333.GI29330@bicker> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:53:33 +0200 > A couple issues here: > * Some resources weren't released. > * If alloc_etherdev() failed it would have caused a NULL dereference > because "pep" would be null when we checked "if (pep->clk)". > * Also it's better to propagate the error codes from mdiobus_register() > instead of just returning -ENOMEM. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Applied.