Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered drivers

We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing
drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully.

Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo.

Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index c51f11bb29ae..8ae0f63602e0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_register);
  */
 void driver_unregister(struct device_driver *drv)
 {
+        if (!drv || !drv->p) {
+                WARN(1, "Unexpected driver unregister!\n");
+                return;
+        }
         driver_remove_groups(drv, drv->groups);
         bus_remove_driver(drv);
 }