[PATCH] [Trivial Patch] scsi_register-006

From:  Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>


  This patch has been generated as part of my scsi_register audit of the 2.5.45 kernel tree. scsi_register() can fail, returning a NULL pointer, and the failure case was not being handled here...

drivers/scsi/gdth.c

@@ -4108,6 +4108,9 @@ GDTH_INITFUNC(int, gdth_detect(Scsi_Host_Template *shtp))
             break;
         if (gdth_search_eisa(eisa_slot)) {      /* controller found */
             shp = scsi_register(shtp,sizeof(gdth_ext_str));
+	    if(shp == NULL)
+		    continue;
+
             ha = HADATA(shp);
             if (!gdth_init_eisa(eisa_slot,ha)) {
                 scsi_unregister(shp);