Re: Handling devices that don't have a bus

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 12:11:42 EST


On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Russell King wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:45:50PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > I recently tried running the dummy_hcd driver for the first time in a
> > > while, and it crashed when the gadget driver was unloaded. It turns out
> > > this was because the gadget's embedded struct device is registered without
> > > a bus, which triggers an oops when the device's driver is unbound. The
> > > oops could be fixed by doing this:
> >
> > Can you provide the oops itself please?
>
> No, I don't have it any more. But I can tell you exactly where the oops
> occurred. In __device_release_driver() (in drivers/base/dd.c), this line
> you added:
>
> if (dev->bus->remove)
>
> crashed because dev->bus was NULL. My patch changes the line to:
>
> if (dev->bus && dev->bus->remove)
>
> Any objection to that?

Nope.

> I think you have misunderstood my point.

Yes I did. Oops.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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