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tty: ehv_bytechan: clean up init error handling

PATCH New Johan Hovold 1 participant 1 message Apr 26, 2017

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PATCH 1/1 tty: ehv_bytechan: clean up init error handling

Straighten out the initcall error handling to avoid deregistering a never-registered tty driver (something which would lead to a NULL-pointer dereference) in the most unlikely event that driver registration fails (e.g. we've run out of major numbers).

---
 drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c +8 -9
index 7ac9bcdf1e61..61fe8d6fd24e 100644
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ static int __init ehv_bc_init(void)
 	ehv_bc_driver = alloc_tty_driver(count);
 	if (!ehv_bc_driver) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto error;
+		goto err_free_bcs;
 	}
 
 	ehv_bc_driver->driver_name = "ehv-bc";
@@ -778,24 +778,23 @@ static int __init ehv_bc_init(void)
 	ret = tty_register_driver(ehv_bc_driver);
 	if (ret) {
 		pr_err("ehv-bc: could not register tty driver (ret=%i)\n", ret);
-		goto error;
+		goto err_put_tty_driver;
 	}
 
 	ret = platform_driver_register(&ehv_bc_tty_driver);
 	if (ret) {
 		pr_err("ehv-bc: could not register platform driver (ret=%i)\n",
 		       ret);
-		goto error;
+		goto err_deregister_tty_driver;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 
-error:
-	if (ehv_bc_driver) {
-		tty_unregister_driver(ehv_bc_driver);
-		put_tty_driver(ehv_bc_driver);
-	}
-
+err_deregister_tty_driver:
+	tty_unregister_driver(ehv_bc_driver);
+err_put_tty_driver:
+	put_tty_driver(ehv_bc_driver);
+err_free_bcs:
 	kfree(bcs);
 
 	return ret;
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