Re: [PATCH -next] m68k/amiga: missing platform_device_unregister() on error in amiga_init_devices()

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Qinglang,

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:24 AM Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@huawei.com> wrote:
> Add the missing platform_device_unregister() before return
> from amiga_init_devices() in the error handling case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@huawei.com>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/m68k/amiga/platform.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/amiga/platform.c
> @@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ static int __init amiga_init_devices(void)
>                         return PTR_ERR(pdev);
>                 error = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &a1200_ide_pdata,
>                                                  sizeof(a1200_ide_pdata));

The only reason why platform_device_add_data() can fail is because the
system ran out of memory.  If that's the case this early, the whole
system will fail to work anyway, and it doesn't matter that the IDE
driver will crash later due to missing platform data.

So I don't think it helps to increase kernel size by adding more error
handling.

> -               if (error)
> +               if (error) {
> +                       platform_device_unregister(pdev);
>                         return error;
> +               }
>         }
>
>         if (AMIGAHW_PRESENT(A4000_IDE)) {
> @@ -199,8 +201,10 @@ static int __init amiga_init_devices(void)
>                         return PTR_ERR(pdev);
>                 error = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &a4000_ide_pdata,
>                                                  sizeof(a4000_ide_pdata));
> -               if (error)
> +               if (error) {
> +                       platform_device_unregister(pdev);

Likewise.

>                         return error;
> +               }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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