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authorJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>2016-05-10 12:39:45 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-06-13 18:49:30 -0700
commit4d2ec8575357d4afc965564e2e910a72fe608d39 (patch)
treee35ecd261822a8dc107b5870031c862146c92ea7 /drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c
parent7bc364097a89a0a9a5e5e4989d6b3e6fb2027a9e (diff)
mcb: Acquire reference to carrier module in core
Acquire a reference to the carrier's kernel module in bus code, so it can't be removed from the kernel while it still has a bus and thus possibly devices attached to it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reported-by: Andreas Werner <andreas.werner@men.de> Tested-by: Andreas Werner <andreas.werner@men.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c b/drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c
index f5923c253f7e..6f2c8522e14a 100644
--- a/drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c
+++ b/drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c
@@ -61,22 +61,36 @@ static int mcb_probe(struct device *dev)
struct mcb_driver *mdrv = to_mcb_driver(dev->driver);
struct mcb_device *mdev = to_mcb_device(dev);
const struct mcb_device_id *found_id;
+ struct module *carrier_mod;
+ int ret;
found_id = mcb_match_id(mdrv->id_table, mdev);
if (!found_id)
return -ENODEV;
+ carrier_mod = mdev->dev.parent->driver->owner;
+ if (!try_module_get(carrier_mod))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
get_device(dev);
- return mdrv->probe(mdev, found_id);
+ ret = mdrv->probe(mdev, found_id);
+ if (ret)
+ module_put(carrier_mod);
+
+ return ret;
}
static int mcb_remove(struct device *dev)
{
struct mcb_driver *mdrv = to_mcb_driver(dev->driver);
struct mcb_device *mdev = to_mcb_device(dev);
+ struct module *carrier_mod;
mdrv->remove(mdev);
+ carrier_mod = mdev->dev.parent->driver->owner;
+ module_put(carrier_mod);
+
put_device(&mdev->dev);
return 0;