This patch moves the call to device_register to the end of the channel
initialization section that the devcie belongs to. It is needed to
avoid NULL pointer dereferences once the device is registered with
sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gr...@microchip.com>
---
drivers/staging/most/core.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/core.c b/drivers/staging/most/core.c
index f4c4646..b59e471 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/most/core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/most/core.c
@@ -1439,10 +1439,6 @@ int most_register_interface(struct most_interface *iface)
c->dev.parent = &iface->dev;
c->dev.groups = channel_attr_groups;
c->dev.release = release_channel;
- if (device_register(&c->dev)) {
- pr_err("registering c->dev failed\n");
- goto free_instance_nodev;
- }
iface->p->channel[i] = c;
c->is_starving = 0;
c->iface = iface;
@@ -1465,6 +1461,10 @@ int most_register_interface(struct most_interface *iface)
mutex_init(&c->start_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->nq_mutex);
list_add_tail(&c->list, &iface->p->channel_list);
+ if (device_register(&c->dev)) {
+ pr_err("registering c->dev failed\n");
+ goto free_instance_nodev;
+ }
}
pr_info("registered new device mdev%d (%s)\n",
id, iface->description);
--
2.7.4
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