staging: comedi: fix too early cleanup in comedi_auto_config()

`comedi_auto_config()` is usually called from the probe routine of a
low-level comedi driver to allocate and auto-configure a comedi device.
Part of this involves calling the low-level driver's `auto_attach()`
handler, and if that is successful, `comedi_device_postconfig()` tries
to complete the configuration of the comedi device.  If either of those
fail, `comedi_device_detach()` is called to clean up, and
`comedi_release_hardware_device()` is called to remove the dynamically
allocated comedi device.

Unfortunately, `comedi_device_detach()` clears the `hw_dev` member of
the `struct comedi_device` (indirectly via `comedi_clear_hw_dev()`), and
that stops `comedi_release_hardware_device()` finding the comedi device
associated with the hardware device, so the comedi device won't be
removed properly.

Since `comedi_release_hardware_device()` also calls
`comedi_device_detach()` (assuming it finds the comedi device associated
with the hardware device), the fix is to remove the direct call to
`comedi_device_detach()` from `comedi_auto_config()` and let the call to
`comedi_release_hardware_device()` take care of it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
index 246080316c90..5b15033a94bf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
@@ -616,8 +616,6 @@ int comedi_auto_config(struct device *hardware_device,
 	ret = driver->auto_attach(dev, context);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		ret = comedi_device_postconfig(dev);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		comedi_device_detach(dev);
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
 
 	if (ret < 0) {