(driver model) bus kset list manipulation bug

From: Hollis Blanchard
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 14:42:39 EST


Hi Patrick, I know you've passed maintainership of the driver model code on, but I was hoping I could jog your memory.

I've found a bug in drivers/base/bus.c, where the bus_type.devices.list is treated as a list of device structs. bus_type.devices is a kset though, so devices.list should contain kobjects rather than devices. Here is the diff I've come up with:

===== drivers/base/bus.c 1.52 vs edited =====
--- 1.52/drivers/base/bus.c Tue Sep 30 10:59:35 2003
+++ edited/drivers/base/bus.c Thu Jan 22 11:22:15 2004
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
#include "base.h"
#include "power/power.h"

-#define to_dev(node) container_of(node,struct device,bus_list)
+#define to_dev(node) container_of(node,struct device,kobj.entry)
#define to_drv(node) container_of(node,struct device_driver,kobj.entry)

#define to_bus_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr,struct bus_attribute,attr)
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
if (!(bus = get_bus(bus)))
return -EINVAL;

- head = start ? &start->bus_list : &bus->devices.list;
+ head = start ? &start->kobj.entry : &bus->devices.list;

down_read(&bus->subsys.rwsem);
list_for_each(entry,head) {
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@
return;

list_for_each(entry,&bus->devices.list) {
- struct device * dev = container_of(entry,struct device,bus_list);
+ struct device * dev = to_dev(entry);
if (!dev->driver) {
error = bus_match(dev,drv);
if (error && (error != -ENODEV))
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
if (bus) {
down_write(&dev->bus->subsys.rwsem);
pr_debug("bus %s: add device %s\n",bus->name,dev->bus_id);
- list_add_tail(&dev->bus_list,&dev->bus->devices.list);
+ list_add_tail(&dev->kobj.entry,&dev->bus->devices.list);
device_attach(dev);
up_write(&dev->bus->subsys.rwsem);

sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj,&dev->kobj,dev->bus_id);

The first hunk you can see is symmetrical with to_drv just below. The next hunk, to bus_for_each_dev, makes it match up with bus_for_each_drv (I take this as evidence that I'm right). The next hunk, in driver_attach, can be compared with device_attach and again you'll see the symmetry (to_drv/to_dev).

The last hunk in bus_add_device is where we were inserting the device.bus_list rather than devices.kobject.entry into the kset.

These are the only 3 users of the devices kset that I could find. Unfortunately when I make these changes I get a panic like so:
bus_match +0x28
driver_attach +0xa0
bus_add_driver +0xdc
driver_register +0x38
pci_register_driver +0x6c
serial8250_pci_init +0x28

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what went wrong. Are there other users of bus_type.devices that I've missed and need updating? Thanks!

--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
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