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From: Jiri Kosina on 15 Mar 2010 09:50
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Bruno Prémont wrote:

> > If the device_add() fails, you should undo the hid_debug_register()
> > call.
>
> Well I was wondering why hid_debug_register() was called no matter what
> device_add() returned but didn't dig around what happened when
> hid_add_device() would return an error.
>
> Looking a few lines further, hid_remove_device() just unregisters debugfs
> entries when status has HID_STAT_ADDED so it definitely makes sense to
> do the proper cleanup (and hid_remove_device() is the only once calling
> hid_debug_unregister())
>
> So patch for both below:
>
>
>
>
> Register debugfs entries before calling device_add() so debugfs entries
> are already present when HID driver's probe function gets called on device
> hotplug.
> Also undo debugfs entry registration if device_add() fails so status
> HID_STAT_ADDED and debugfs registration status remain consistent and
> we don't leak the debugfs entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons(a)linux-vserver.org>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern(a)rowland.harvard.edu>
> ---
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> index eabe5f8..709b4d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> @@ -1759,11 +1759,12 @@ int hid_add_device(struct hid_device *hdev)
> dev_set_name(&hdev->dev, "%04X:%04X:%04X.%04X", hdev->bus,
> hdev->vendor, hdev->product, atomic_inc_return(&id));
>
> + hid_debug_register(hdev, dev_name(&hdev->dev));
> ret = device_add(&hdev->dev);
> if (!ret)
> hdev->status |= HID_STAT_ADDED;
> -
> - hid_debug_register(hdev, dev_name(&hdev->dev));
> + else
> + hid_debug_unregister(hdev);
>
> return ret;

Applied, thank you Bruno.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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