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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2012-01-24 13:34:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2012-01-24 16:00:34 -0800 |
| commit | fde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da (patch) | |
| tree | ecc24bd2702cb7cb32cd4d22729541d5c79cee39 /drivers/base | |
| parent | 2b31594a9523449b168946725689d039c80204de (diff) | |
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/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/driver.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c index b631f7c5945..e979cad75c6 100644 --- a/drivers/base/driver.c +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c @@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv) other = driver_find(drv->name, drv->bus); if (other) { - put_driver(other); printk(KERN_ERR "Error: Driver '%s' is already registered, " "aborting...\n", drv->name); return -EBUSY; @@ -275,7 +274,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_unregister); * Call kset_find_obj() to iterate over list of drivers on * a bus to find driver by name. Return driver if found. * - * Note that kset_find_obj increments driver's reference count. + * This routine provides no locking to prevent the driver it returns + * from being unregistered or unloaded while the caller is using it. + * The caller is responsible for preventing this. */ struct device_driver *driver_find(const char *name, struct bus_type *bus) { @@ -283,6 +284,8 @@ struct device_driver *driver_find(const char *name, struct bus_type *bus) struct driver_private *priv; if (k) { + /* Drop reference added by kset_find_obj() */ + kobject_put(k); priv = to_driver(k); return priv->driver; } |