[PATCH] [Trivial Patch] scsi_register-008

From:  Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>


  This patch has been generated as part of my scsi_register audit of the 2.5.45 kernel tree. scsi_register() can fail, returning a NULL pointer, and the failure case was not being handled here...

drivers/scsi/gdth.c

@@ -4220,6 +4220,9 @@ GDTH_INITFUNC(int, gdth_detect(Scsi_Host_Template *shtp))
             if (gdth_ctr_count >= MAXHA)
                 break;
             shp = scsi_register(shtp,sizeof(gdth_ext_str));
+	    if(shp == NULL)
+		    continue;
+
             ha = HADATA(shp);
             if (!gdth_init_pci(&pcistr[ctr],ha)) {
                 scsi_unregister(shp);