On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:23:57PM +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> I triggerd the BUG_ON() in driver_register(), which was added in
> f48f3febb2cbfd0f2ecee7690835ba745c1034a4, when booting a domU Xen
> domain. Since there was no contextual information logged, I needed to
> attach kgdb to determine the culprit (the wmi-bmof driver in my case).
>
> Instead of running into a BUG_ON() we print an error message
> identifying the driver but continue booting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <f...@geekplace.eu>
> ---
> drivers/base/driver.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
> index ba912558a510..63baec586eba 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
> @@ -148,7 +148,11 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
> int ret;
> struct device_driver *other;
>
> - BUG_ON(!drv->bus->p);
> + if (!drv->bus->p) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "Driver '%s' was unable to register bus_type\n",
> + drv->name);
> + return -EBUSY;
> + }
In looking at this code, that's a real bug somewhere in the logic of the
bus subsystem. BUG_ON() is a pretty big hammer, I agree, but your error
message should be a lot more descriptive, and the error value should not
be BUSY, as something went wrong, it's not just a "come back later" type
of thing.
thanks,
greg k-h
