[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Fix cs4270 error path

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Mon Sep 29 15:42:15 CEST 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote:
> The error path in cs4270_probe/cs4270_remove is pretty broken:
> * If cs4270_probe fails, codec is leaked.
> * If snd_soc_register_card fails, cs4270_i2c_driver stays registered.
> * If I2C support is enabled but no I2C device is found, i2c_del_driver
>  is never called (neither in cs4270_probe nor in cs4270_remove.)
>
> Fix the first 2 problems by implementing a clean error path in
> cs4270_probe and jumping to its labels as needed. Fix the 3rd problem
> by removing the condition to call i2c_del_driver in cs4270_remove.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org>

Acked-By: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>

Takashi, this patch needs to go into 2.6.27 as well.  Sorry about
that.  I don't know how I missed so many problems with my code.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


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