Re: [LKP] [mtd] 6b44d910ae7: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3547 check_flags+0xae/0x17b()

[Frans Klaver]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Frans Klaver <fransklaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
>> commit 6b44d910ae7de5316fcf1fc828ff4a8d48cac5e2 ("mtd: core: set some defaults when dev.parent is set")
>>
>> <panic>
>
> I would then expect that this is actually caused by
> 29b4dacc55b0cb079e5b4be2fbc494e138a7d110 (mtd: nand: docg4: show
> parent device in sysfs), which effectively replaces mtd->owner with
> the automated value. I just noticed that
> module_platform_driver_probe() doesn't set the owner like
> module_platform_driver() does.

Or not. I should probably get more sleep somewhere. omap2 uses
module_platform_driver but still requires .driver.owner to be set to
THIS_MODULE.

>From the looks of it only platform_driver_register() provides the
nicety of automatically filling in the module owner. This still seems
to be an API inconsistency to me.

> I'm happy to
> send in a patch that restores "mtd->owner = THIS_MODULE" with these
> drivers, if that's preferred.

Long story short, I should fix it.

Brian, do you prefer a rework of the series or a patch fixing it?

Frans
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