[PATCH] e1000 -- handle register_netdev errors
From: Stephen Hemminger <hidden>
Date: 2004-01-15 21:59:20
Patch against 2.6.1, but probably applies to 2.4 as well. E1000 driver was not handling failures of register_netdev diff -Nru a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c Thu Jan 15 13:59:07 2004
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c Thu Jan 15 13:59:07 2004@@ -508,7 +508,9 @@ INIT_WORK(&adapter->tx_timeout_task, (void (*)(void *))e1000_tx_timeout_task, netdev); - register_netdev(netdev); + err = register_netdev(netdev); + if (err) + goto err_register; /* we're going to reset, so assume we have no link for now */
@@ -553,6 +555,7 @@ cards_found++; return 0; +err_register: err_sw_init: err_eeprom: iounmap(adapter->hw.hw_addr);