Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 01:29:35 -0800 (PST) From: Petr Vandrovec Subject: firewire: core: Remove card from list of cards when enable fails Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec After a controller initialization failure, addition of another card got stuck due to card_list corruption. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter --- drivers/firewire/fw-card.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c +++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ fw_card_add(struct fw_card *card, { u32 *config_rom; size_t length; + int err; card->max_receive = max_receive; card->link_speed = link_speed; @@ -422,7 +423,13 @@ fw_card_add(struct fw_card *card, list_add_tail(&card->link, &card_list); mutex_unlock(&card_mutex); - return card->driver->enable(card, config_rom, length); + err = card->driver->enable(card, config_rom, length); + if (err < 0) { + mutex_lock(&card_mutex); + list_del(&card->link); + mutex_unlock(&card_mutex); + } + return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(fw_card_add);