Commit 1037b278 authored by Sudip Mukherjee's avatar Sudip Mukherjee Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: fix error path

Lets call remove_proc_entry() in the error path only if we have
successfully created "misc" in procfs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 344e62b3
......@@ -281,8 +281,9 @@ static char *misc_devnode(struct device *dev, umode_t *mode)
static int __init misc_init(void)
{
int err;
struct proc_dir_entry *ret;
proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
ret = proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
misc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "misc");
err = PTR_ERR(misc_class);
if (IS_ERR(misc_class))
......@@ -298,7 +299,8 @@ static int __init misc_init(void)
printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n", MISC_MAJOR);
class_destroy(misc_class);
fail_remove:
remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL);
if (ret)
remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL);
return err;
}
subsys_initcall(misc_init);
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