[Jaunty] SRU: Fix radio-maestro probe failures causing a kernel oops
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Jul 29 16:13:02 UTC 2009
Colin Ian King wrote:
> SRU Justification:
>
> Impact: A failed radio-maestro probe always generates a kernel oops.
>
> Probe failures in maestro_probe cause a double call to
> video_device_release():
>
> a) indirectly when calling video_unregister_device()
> via dev->release(dev) in device_release()
> b) explicity in the error handling at label errfr1
>
> The second call causes the oops. This bug was introduced
> with commit aa5e90af7d78d1711f8f4275ce3638817c0023dc when the
> release method was added to struct video_device maestro_radio
> but the error handling was not updated to take this into
> consideration.
>
> The fix: Correct the error handling path to avoid the
> double release.
>
> Test case: Without this fix, the kernel generates an oops when a probe
> fails. With the fix, there is no oops. Tested by user GertjanVD.
>
>
>
ACK
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
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