From: Haiyang Zhang Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:14:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Staging: hv: Fix null pointer error after vmbus loading X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1bb40a25b26ef7e2c4fb79ce430de2b9f836527f;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git Staging: hv: Fix null pointer error after vmbus loading Fix null pointer error after vmbus loading. Remove code that checks for dev_name, the affected structure is kzalloc-ed prior to this routine, so it is always null at this stage. Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c index 582318f10222..270fb7f64d75 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -537,18 +537,7 @@ static int vmbus_child_device_register(struct hv_device *root_device_obj, DPRINT_DBG(VMBUS_DRV, "child device (%p) registering", child_device_ctx); - /* Make sure we are not registered already */ - if (strlen(dev_name(&child_device_ctx->device)) != 0) { - DPRINT_ERR(VMBUS_DRV, - "child device (%p) already registered - busid %s", - child_device_ctx, - dev_name(&child_device_ctx->device)); - - ret = -1; - goto Cleanup; - } - - /* Set the device bus id. Otherwise, device_register()will fail. */ + /* Set the device name. Otherwise, device_register() will fail. */ dev_set_name(&child_device_ctx->device, "vmbus_0_%d", atomic_inc_return(&device_num)); @@ -573,7 +562,6 @@ static int vmbus_child_device_register(struct hv_device *root_device_obj, DPRINT_INFO(VMBUS_DRV, "child device (%p) registered", &child_device_ctx->device); -Cleanup: DPRINT_EXIT(VMBUS_DRV); return ret;