[PATCH 2/2] Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered drivers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 28 2009 - 19:53:08 EST


From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>

We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing
drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully.

Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo.

Reported-by: Ozan ÃaÄlayan <ozan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/bus.c | 4 +++-
drivers/base/core.c | 5 ++++-
drivers/base/driver.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index dc030f1..c659961 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -700,8 +700,10 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
}

kobject_uevent(&priv->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
- return error;
+ return 0;
out_unregister:
+ kfree(drv->p);
+ drv->p = NULL;
kobject_put(&priv->kobj);
out_put_bus:
bus_put(bus);
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 4aa527b..1977d4b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
}

if (!dev_name(dev))
- goto done;
+ goto name_error;

pr_debug("device: '%s': %s\n", dev_name(dev), __func__);

@@ -978,6 +978,9 @@ done:
cleanup_device_parent(dev);
if (parent)
put_device(parent);
+name_error:
+ kfree(dev->p);
+ dev->p = NULL;
goto done;
}

diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index c51f11b..8ae0f63 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_register);
*/
void driver_unregister(struct device_driver *drv)
{
+ if (!drv || !drv->p) {
+ WARN(1, "Unexpected driver unregister!\n");
+ return;
+ }
driver_remove_groups(drv, drv->groups);
bus_remove_driver(drv);
}
--
1.6.3

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