[PATCH 74/94] phy: core: Fix error path in phy_create()

Sam Asadi asadi.samuel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 17:01:29 UTC 2014


From: Roger Quadros <rogerq at ti.com>

Prevent resources from being freed twice in case device_add() call
fails within phy_create(). Also use ida_simple_remove() instead of
ida_remove() as we had used ida_simple_get() to allocate the ida.

Cc: 3.13+ <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: sam-the-6 <asadi.samuel at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/phy/phy-core.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
index c64a2f3..49c4465 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
@@ -614,8 +614,9 @@ struct phy *phy_create(struct device *dev, const struct phy_ops *ops,
 	return phy;
 
 put_dev:
-	put_device(&phy->dev);
-	ida_remove(&phy_ida, phy->id);
+	put_device(&phy->dev);  /* calls phy_release() which frees resources */
+	return ERR_PTR(ret);
+
 free_phy:
 	kfree(phy);
 	return ERR_PTR(ret);
@@ -799,7 +800,7 @@ static void phy_release(struct device *dev)
 
 	phy = to_phy(dev);
 	dev_vdbg(dev, "releasing '%s'\n", dev_name(dev));
-	ida_remove(&phy_ida, phy->id);
+	ida_simple_remove(&phy_ida, phy->id);
 	kfree(phy);
 }
 
-- 
1.7.10.4



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