[Linux-parport] [PATCH] fix parport_serial_pci_resume() ignoring return value from pci_enable_device()
Jiri Kosina
jikos at jikos.cz
Thu Oct 12 20:03:28 EDT 2006
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Russell King wrote:
> In this case, you're calling parport_serial_pci_remove() in the failure
> path. That's fine, but this opens the possibility of it being called
> twice - once on resume failure and once when the device/driver is
> removed. If this happens, we dereference a NULL pointer. *BAD*.
You are right, I missed this.
I am not currently sure what the proper fix is, though. We might be also
ending doing very bad things, when we ignore the error returned by
pci_enable_device() and proceed operating on non-existing device.
Thanks for spotting this,
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Jiri Kosina
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