USB: serial: fix tty-device error handling at probe

commit ca4383a3947a83286bc9b9c598a1f55e867871d7 upstream.

Add missing error handling when registering the tty device at port
probe. This avoids trying to remove an uninitialised character device
when the port device is removed.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
index 5d8d86666b901d19cbdb99f382ac64b6d3f2ef7c..6f91eb9ae81a44ebd3b8eb530594e3d3481e0d65 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struct device *dev)
 {
        struct usb_serial_driver *driver;
        struct usb_serial_port *port;
+       struct device *tty_dev;
        int retval = 0;
        int minor;
 
@@ -80,7 +81,15 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struct device *dev)
        }
 
        minor = port->minor;
-       tty_register_device(usb_serial_tty_driver, minor, dev);
+       tty_dev = tty_register_device(usb_serial_tty_driver, minor, dev);
+       if (IS_ERR(tty_dev)) {
+               retval = PTR_ERR(tty_dev);
+               device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_port_number);
+               if (driver->port_remove)
+                       driver->port_remove(port);
+               goto exit_with_autopm;
+       }
+
        dev_info(&port->serial->dev->dev,
                 "%s converter now attached to ttyUSB%d\n",
                 driver->description, minor);