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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2012-01-24 19:34:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2012-01-25 01:00:34 +0100 |
| commit | fde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da (patch) | |
| tree | ecc24bd2702cb7cb32cd4d22729541d5c79cee39 /drivers/s390 | |
| parent | driver-core: Fix possible null reference in subsys_interface_unregister (diff) | |
| download | linux-fde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da.tar.xz linux-fde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da.zip | |
Driver core: driver_find() drops reference before returning
As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch
(as1510) changes driver_find(); it now drops the reference it acquires
before returning. The patch also adjusts all the callers of
driver_find() to remove the now unnecessary calls to put_driver().
In addition, the patch adds a warning to driver_find(): Callers must
make sure the driver they are searching for does not get unloaded
while they are using it. This has always been the case; driver_find()
has never prevented a driver from being unregistered or unloaded.
Hence the patch will not introduce any new bugs. The existing callers
all seem to be okay in this respect, however I don't understand the
video drivers well enough to be certain about them.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
CC: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
CC: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/s390')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv_app.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv_app.c b/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv_app.c index 4d2ea4000422..32515a201bbc 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv_app.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv_app.c @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int __init smsgiucv_app_init(void) rc = dev_set_name(smsg_app_dev, KMSG_COMPONENT); if (rc) { kfree(smsg_app_dev); - goto fail_put_driver; + goto fail; } smsg_app_dev->bus = &iucv_bus; smsg_app_dev->parent = iucv_root; @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int __init smsgiucv_app_init(void) rc = device_register(smsg_app_dev); if (rc) { put_device(smsg_app_dev); - goto fail_put_driver; + goto fail; } /* convert sender to uppercase characters */ @@ -191,12 +191,11 @@ static int __init smsgiucv_app_init(void) rc = smsg_register_callback(SMSG_PREFIX, smsg_app_callback); if (rc) { device_unregister(smsg_app_dev); - goto fail_put_driver; + goto fail; } rc = 0; -fail_put_driver: - put_driver(smsgiucv_drv); +fail: return rc; } module_init(smsgiucv_app_init); |