Re: [PATCH] drivers/perf: Fix kernel panic when rmmod PMU modules during perf sampling

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 05:41:52 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 05:19:25PM +0800, Qi Liu wrote:
> Kernel panic will also happen when users try to unbind PMU drivers with
> device. This unbind issue could be solved by another patch latter.
>
> drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c | 1 +
> drivers/perf/fsl_imx8_ddr_perf.c | 1 +
> drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_ddrc_pmu.c | 1 +
> drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_hha_pmu.c | 1 +
> drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_l3c_pmu.c | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c
> index 48e28ef..90caba56 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c
> @@ -742,6 +742,7 @@ static int smmu_pmu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> platform_set_drvdata(pdev, smmu_pmu);
>
> smmu_pmu->pmu = (struct pmu) {
> + .module = THIS_MODULE,

I thought platform_driver_register() did this automatically?

Will