ACPI: dock: fix opps after dock driver fails to initialize
authorChuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Wed, 9 May 2007 22:05:48 +0000 (15:05 -0700)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 10 May 2007 07:30:41 +0000 (03:30 -0400)
The driver tests the dock_station pointer for nonnull
to check whether it has initialized properly. But in
some cases dock_station will be non-null after being
freed when driver init fails. Fix by zeroing the
pointer after freeing.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/dock.c

index 9ddc3f189bb74b958e1a7037ce9cd3925fc96138..f66f4f7767ac1db6a8c3437e8f2a8ca77944ef0f 100644 (file)
@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle)
        if (ret) {
                printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Error %d registering dock device\n", ret);
                kfree(dock_station);
+               dock_station = NULL;
                return ret;
        }
        ret = device_create_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_docked);
@@ -722,6 +723,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle)
                printk("Error %d adding sysfs file\n", ret);
                platform_device_unregister(&dock_device);
                kfree(dock_station);
+               dock_station = NULL;
                return ret;
        }
        ret = device_create_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_undock);
@@ -730,6 +732,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle)
                device_remove_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_docked);
                platform_device_unregister(&dock_device);
                kfree(dock_station);
+               dock_station = NULL;
                return ret;
        }
        ret = device_create_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_uid);
@@ -739,6 +742,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle)
                device_remove_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_undock);
                platform_device_unregister(&dock_device);
                kfree(dock_station);
+               dock_station = NULL;
                return ret;
        }
 
@@ -751,6 +755,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle)
        dd = alloc_dock_dependent_device(handle);
        if (!dd) {
                kfree(dock_station);
+               dock_station = NULL;
                ret = -ENOMEM;
                goto dock_add_err_unregister;
        }
@@ -779,6 +784,7 @@ dock_add_err_unregister:
        device_remove_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_uid);
        platform_device_unregister(&dock_device);
        kfree(dock_station);
+       dock_station = NULL;
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -813,6 +819,7 @@ static int dock_remove(void)
 
        /* free dock station memory */
        kfree(dock_station);
+       dock_station = NULL;
        return 0;
 }