[PATCH RESEND] chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add()

From: Yang Yingliang
Date: Thu Jul 14 2022 - 05:16:34 EST


If dev->devt is not set, cdev_add() will not be called, so if device_add()
fails, cdev_del() is not needed. Fix this by checking dev->devt in error
case.

Fixes: 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/char_dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index ba0ded7842a7..3f667292608c 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ int cdev_device_add(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev)
}

rc = device_add(dev);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc && dev->devt)
cdev_del(cdev);

return rc;
--
2.25.1