Bug 194371

Summary: drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c hvc_open fault fast path has no way to call hvc_close() when hvc_kick() fails.
Product: Drivers Reporter: Michael (michael_allen_bond)
Component: NetworkAssignee: drivers_network (drivers_network)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.10 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Michael 2017-02-07 06:11:58 UTC 
The lack of fault handling out of the fast path is based on the assumption that hvc_kick() -->try_to_wake_up() never fails, correct?

This triggered a warning in one of our static analysis tools.