Re: [PATCH 41/47] drivers/base: check errors

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:23:34PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> >
> >Add lots of return-value checking.
> >
> >+               if (error)
> >+                       goto out;
> >+               error = sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj,
> >+                                               &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id);
> >+               if (error)
> >+                       goto out;
> >+               error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj,
> >+                               &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "subsystem");
> >+               if (error)
> >+                       goto out;
> >+               error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj,
> >+                               &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus");
> >       }
> >+out:
> >       return error;
> 
> What about removing the links that were created if one of these calls fails?

Yes, that would be good, I think I have a patch in my queue that handles
that properly...

thanks,

greg k-h
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