From a91c1be21704113b023919826c6d531da46656ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:14:42 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR()
 on error

we also need to clean up and free the cdev.

Reported-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
---
 drivers/misc/enclosure.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index 48c84a58163..00e5fcac8fd 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -285,8 +285,11 @@ enclosure_component_register(struct enclosure_device *edev,
 	cdev->groups = enclosure_groups;
 
 	err = device_register(cdev);
-	if (err)
-		ERR_PTR(err);
+	if (err) {
+		ecomp->number = -1;
+		put_device(cdev);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+	}
 
 	return ecomp;
 }
-- 
2.11.4.GIT