Patch "Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     staging-comedi-comedi_fops-avoid-orphaned-proc-entry.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From bf279ece37d2a3eaaa9813fcd7a1d8a81eb29c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cheah Kok Cheong <thrust73@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:25:52 +0800
Subject: Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry

From: Cheah Kok Cheong <thrust73@gmail.com>

commit bf279ece37d2a3eaaa9813fcd7a1d8a81eb29c20 upstream.

Move comedi_proc_init to the end to avoid orphaned proc entry
if module loading failed.

Signed-off-by: Cheah Kok Cheong <thrust73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2901,9 +2901,6 @@ static int __init comedi_init(void)
 
 	comedi_class->dev_groups = comedi_dev_groups;
 
-	/* XXX requires /proc interface */
-	comedi_proc_init();
-
 	/* create devices files for legacy/manual use */
 	for (i = 0; i < comedi_num_legacy_minors; i++) {
 		struct comedi_device *dev;
@@ -2921,6 +2918,9 @@ static int __init comedi_init(void)
 		mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
 	}
 
+	/* XXX requires /proc interface */
+	comedi_proc_init();
+
 	return 0;
 }
 module_init(comedi_init);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thrust73@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/staging-comedi-comedi_fops-avoid-orphaned-proc-entry.patch