From: Naveen Kumar Parna <[email protected]>

Without ".owner = THIS_MODULE" it is possible to crash the kernel
by unloading the mbcs module while someone works with the file.
Fix this by initializing the ‘struct file_operations' ->owner with
THIS_MODULE.

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/char/mbcs.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mbcs.c b/drivers/char/mbcs.c
index 8c9216a0f62e..0a31b60bee7b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mbcs.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mbcs.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(soft_list);
  * file operations
  */
 static const struct file_operations mbcs_ops = {
+       .owner = THIS_MODULE,
        .open = mbcs_open,
        .llseek = mbcs_sram_llseek,
        .read = mbcs_sram_read,
-- 
2.17.1

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