Reviewing a fresh portion of coverity defects in USB core
(specifically CID 1458999), Alan Stern noted below in [1]:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 02:39:23PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> A revised search finds line 997 in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and lines
> 216, 269 in drivers/usb/core/port.c. (I didn't try looking in any
> other directories.) AFAICT all three of these should check the
> return value, although a error message in the kernel log probably
> isn't needed.
Factor out the usb_remove_device() change into a standalone patch to
allow conflict-free integration on top of the earliest stable branches.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2002251419120.1485-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org
Fixes: 253e05724f ("USB: add a "remove hardware" sysfs attribute")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.33+
Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226175036.14946-2-erosca@de.adit-jv.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
60e3f6e4ac