Re: [PATCH v2] staging: comedi: cb_pcidas64: fix request_irq() warn

[Ian Abbott]

On 15/03/2021 19:58, Tong Zhang wrote:
> request_irq() wont accept a name which contains slash so we need to
> repalce it with something else -- otherwise it will trigger a warning
> and the entry in /proc/irq/ will not be created
> since the .name might be used by userspace and we don't want to break
> userspace, so we are changing the parameters passed to request_irq()
>
> [    1.565966] name 'pci-das6402/16'
> [    1.566149] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 184 at fs/proc/generic.c:180 __xlate_proc_name+0x93/0xb0
> [    1.568923] RIP: 0010:__xlate_proc_name+0x93/0xb0
> [    1.574200] Call Trace:
> [    1.574722]  proc_mkdir+0x18/0x20
> [    1.576629]  request_threaded_irq+0xfe/0x160
> [    1.576859]  auto_attach+0x60a/0xc40 [cb_pcidas64]
>
> Suggested-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: revert changes to .name field so that we dont break userspace
>
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c
> index fa987bb0e7cd..6d3ba399a7f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas64.c
> @@ -4035,7 +4035,7 @@ static int auto_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
>   	init_stc_registers(dev);
>   
>   	retval = request_irq(pcidev->irq, handle_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED,
> -			     dev->board_name, dev);
> +			     "cb_pcidas64", dev);
>   	if (retval) {
>   		dev_dbg(dev->class_dev, "unable to allocate irq %u\n",
>   			pcidev->irq);

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>

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