Credit for this patch goes is shared with Dan Williams [1]. I've
taken things one step further to make the helper function more
useful and clean up calling code.
There's a common pattern in the kernel whereby a struct cdev is placed
in a structure along side a struct device which manages the life-
This is not as straightforward a conversion as the others
in this series. These drivers did not originally make use of
kobj.parent so they likely suffered from a use after free bug if
someone unregistered the devices while they are being used.
In order to make the conversions, switch from device_r
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper. The helper replaces a common pattern by
taking the proper reference against the parent device and adding both
the cdev and the device.
At the same time we cleanup the error path through device_probe
func
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper in evdev, joydev and mousedev. The helper
replaces a common pattern by taking the proper reference against the
parent device and adding both the cdev and the device.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Acked-
From: Jason Gunthorpe
The use after free is not triggerable here because the cdev holds
the module lock and the only device_unregister is only triggered by
module unload, however make the change for consistency.
To make this work the cdev_del needs to move out of the struct device
release functi
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper. The helper replaces a common pattern by
taking the proper reference against the parent device and adding both
the cdev and the device.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil
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drivers
This replaces the suspect looking cdev.kobj.parent lines with the
equivalent cdev_set_parent function. This is a straightforward change
that's largely cosmetic but it does push the kobj.parent ownership
into char_dev.c where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
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drivers/infiniband/core/
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper. The helper replaces a common pattern by
taking the proper reference against the parent device and adding both
the cdev and the device.
In doing so we have to remove a guard statement from cdev_del,
but t
Hey,
This version of the series fixes the issue found by the kbuild test
robot with the rtc driver. I managed to reproduce the issue and this
series fixes the problem.
Logan
Changes since v4:
* Fix a kbuild robot issue with the rtc driver: the rtc driver sometimes
does not want to add the cd
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper. The helper replaces a common pattern by
taking the proper reference against the parent device and adding both
the cdev and the device.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe
Review
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper. The helper replaces a common pattern by
taking the proper reference against the parent device and adding both
the cdev and the device.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams
Reviewed-
Very straightforward conversion to device_add_cdev. Drop cdev_add and
device_add and use cdev_device_add.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
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drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c | 11 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c b/drivers/pci
Mostly straightforward, but we had to remove the rtc_dev_add/del_device
functions as they split up the cdev_add and the device_add.
Doing this also revealed that there was likely another subtle bug:
seeing cdev_add was done after device_register, the cdev probably
was not ready before device_add w
This driver did not originally set kobj.parent so it likely had
potential a use after free bug which this patch fixes.
We convert from device_register to device_initialize/cdev_device_add.
While we are at it we use put_device instead of kfree (as recommended
by the device_initialize documentation)
This driver did not set kobj.parent so it likely suffered from
a potential use after free race if the user unregistered the
device while it was in use.
This was not so straightforward a conversion but I think this patch
cleans up its probe's error path significantly.
This patch adds device_initia
From: Dan Williams
If device_add() fails, cleanup the cdev. Otherwise, we leak a kobj_map()
with a stale device number.
As Jason points out, there is a small possibility that userspace has
opened and mapped the device in the time between cdev_add() and the
device_add() failure. We need a new kil
Replace the open coded registration of the cdev and dev with the
new device_add_cdev() helper. The helper replaces a common pattern by
taking the proper reference against the parent device and adding both
the cdev and the device.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij
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