From: Alexander Strakh Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:01:25 +0000 (-0800) Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c: add module_put on error path in rtc_proc_open() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc5~40 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24a6f5b8589d2abfbf523c59ab1258726edc164f;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c: add module_put on error path in rtc_proc_open() In file drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c seq_open() can return -ENOMEM. 86 if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) 87 return -ENODEV; 88 89 return single_open(file, rtc_proc_show, rtc); In this case before exiting (line 89) from rtc_proc_open the module_put(THIS_MODULE) must be called. Found by Linux Device Drivers Verification Project Signed-off-by: Alexander Strakh Cc: Alessandro Zummo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c index c086fc30a84..242bbf86c74 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c @@ -81,12 +81,16 @@ static int rtc_proc_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *offset) static int rtc_proc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { + int ret; struct rtc_device *rtc = PDE(inode)->data; if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) return -ENODEV; - return single_open(file, rtc_proc_show, rtc); + ret = single_open(file, rtc_proc_show, rtc); + if (ret) + module_put(THIS_MODULE); + return ret; } static int rtc_proc_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)