Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Fix device_add_attrs() error code path

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 12 2013 - 18:12:30 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 06:11:02AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the addition of dev_attr_online fails, device_add_attrs() should
> remove device attribute groups as well as type and class attribute
> groups before returning an error code. Make that happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Does this need tob e in 3.13-final? Or can it wait for 3.14-rc1? The
odds that this file creation would ever fail is _really_ low, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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