Commit 9a32bb39 authored by Alexey Khoroshilov's avatar Alexey Khoroshilov Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ppdev: ppdev_init: do not return zero in case of failure

Error handling of parport_register_driver() in ppdev_init()
is broken because it deallocates all resources but still
returns zero.

Currently parport_register_driver() always succeeds.
Nevertheless it is worth to fix the issue.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0bf5a8be
......@@ -783,7 +783,8 @@ static int __init ppdev_init (void)
err = PTR_ERR(ppdev_class);
goto out_chrdev;
}
if (parport_register_driver(&pp_driver)) {
err = parport_register_driver(&pp_driver);
if (err < 0) {
printk (KERN_WARNING CHRDEV ": unable to register with parport\n");
goto out_class;
}
......
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