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* [PATCH] add numa node information to struct deviceChristoph Hellwig2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For node-aware skb allocations we need information about the node in struct net_device or struct device. Davem suggested to put it into struct device which this patch does. In particular: - struct device gets a new int numa_node member if CONFIG_NUMA is set - there are two new helpers, dev_to_node and set_dev_node to transparently deal with the non-numa case - for pci devices the node-info is set to the value we get from pcibus_to_node. Note that for some architectures pcibus_to_node doesn't work yet at the time we call it currently. This is harmless and will just mean skb allocations aren't node-local on this architectures until the implementation of pcibus_to_node on these architectures have been updated (There are patches for x86 and x86_64 floating around) [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.Cornelia Huck2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* driver core: Introduce device_find_child().Cornelia Huck2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | Introduce device_find_child() to match device_for_each_child(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_dataBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data This patch changes ACPI to use the new dev_archdata on i386, x86_64 and ia64 (is there any other arch using ACPI ?) to store it's acpi_handle. It also removes the firmware_data field from struct device as this was the only user. Only build-tested on x86 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct deviceBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add arch specific dev_archdata to struct device Adds an arch specific struct dev_arch to struct device. This enables architecture to add specific fields to every device in the system, like DMA operation pointers, NUMA node ID, firmware specific data, etc... Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver Core: Move virtual_device_parent() to core.cGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | It doesn't need to be global or in device.h Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add notification of bus eventsBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I finally did as you suggested and added the notifier to the struct bus_type itself. There are still problems to be expected is something attaches to a bus type where the code can hook in different struct device sub-classes (which is imho a big bogosity but I won't even try to argue that case now) but it will solve nicely a number of issues I've had so far. That also means that clients interested in registering for such notifications have to do it before devices are added and after bus types are registered. Fortunately, most bus types that matter for the various usage scenarios I have in mind are registerd at postcore_initcall time, which means I have a really nice spot at arch_initcall time to add my notifiers. There are 4 notifications provided. Device being added (before hooked to the bus) and removed (failure of previous case or after being unhooked from the bus), along with driver being bound to a device and about to be unbound. The usage I have for these are: - The 2 first ones are used to maintain a struct device_ext that is hooked to struct device.firmware_data. This structure contains for now a pointer to the Open Firmware node related to the device (if any), the NUMA node ID (for quick access to it) and the DMA operations pointers & iommu table instance for DMA to/from this device. For bus types I own (like IBM VIO or EBUS), I just maintain that structure directly from the bus code when creating the devices. But for bus types managed by generic code like PCI or platform (actually, of_platform which is a variation of platform linked to Open Firmware device-tree), I need this notifier. - The other two ones have a completely different usage scenario. I have cases where multiple devices and their drivers depend on each other. For example, the IBM EMAC network driver needs to attach to a MAL DMA engine which is a separate device, and a PHY interface which is also a separate device. They are all of_platform_device's (well, about to be with my upcoming patches) but there is no say in what precise order the core will "probe" them and instanciate the various modules. The solution I found for that is to have the drivers for emac to use multithread_probe, and wait for a driver to be bound to the target MAL and PHY control devices (the device-tree contains reference to the MAL and PHY interface nodes, which I can then match to of_platform_devices). Right now, I've been polling, but with that notifier, I can more cleanly wait (with a timeout of course). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Remove __must_check for device_for_each_child()Russell King2006-10-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eliminate more __must_check madness. The return code from device_for_each_child() depends on the values which the helper function returns. If the helper function always returns zero, it's utterly pointless to check the return code from device_for_each_child(). The only code which knows if the return value should be checked is the caller itself, so forcing the return code to always be checked is silly. Hence, remove the __must_check annotation. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver coreAlan Stern2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a potential deadlock in the driver core. It boils down to the fact that bus_remove_device() calls klist_remove() instead of klist_del(), thereby waiting until the reference count of the klist_node in the bus's klist of devices drops to 0. The refcount can't reach 0 so long as a modprobe process is trying to bind a new driver to the device being removed, by calling __driver_attach(). The problem is that __driver_attach() tries to acquire the device's parent's semaphore, but the caller of bus_remove_device() is quite likely to own that semaphore already. It isn't sufficient just to replace klist_remove() with klist_del(). Doing so runs the risk that the device would remain on the bus's klist of devices for some time, and so could be bound to another driver even after it was unregistered. What's needed is a new way to distinguish whether or not a device is registered, based on a criterion other than whether its klist_node is linked into the bus's klist of devices. That way driver binding can fail when the device is unregistered, even if it is still linked into the klist. This patch (as782) implements the solution, by adding a new bitflag to indiate when a struct device is registered, by testing the flag before allowing a driver to bind a device, and by changing the definition of the device_is_registered() inline. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the infrastructure for drivers to do a threaded probe, and waits at init time for all currently outstanding probes to complete. A new kernel thread will be created when the probe() function for the driver is called, if the multithread_probe bit is set in the driver saying it can support this kind of operation. I have tested this with USB and PCI, and it works, and shaves off a lot of time in the boot process, but there are issues with finding root boot disks, and some USB drivers assume that this can never happen, so it is currently not enabled for any bus type. Individual drivers can enable this right now if they wish, and bus authors can selectivly turn it on as well, once they determine that their subsystem will work properly with it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* drivers/base: check errorsAndrew Morton2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | Add lots of return-value checking. <pcornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>: fix bus_rescan_devices()] Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* add __must_check to device management codeAndrew Morton2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're getting a lot of crashes in the sysfs/kobject/device/bus/class code and they're very hard to diagnose. I'm suspecting that in some cases this is because drivers aren't checking return values and aren't handling errors correctly. So the code blithely blunders on and crashes later in very obscure ways. There's just no reason to ignore errors which can and do occur. So the patch sprinkles __must_check all over these APIs. Causes 1,513 new warnings. Heh. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin filesGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | Makes it easier for devices to create and remove binary attribute files so they don't have to call directly into sysfs. This is needed to help with the conversion from struct class_device to struct device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Class: add support for class interfaces for devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | When moving class_device usage over to device, we need to handle class_interfaces properly with devices. This patch adds that support. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: create devices/virtual/ treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a parent. It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add device_rename functionGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | The network layer needs this to convert to using struct device instead of a struct class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properlyGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds two new callbacks to the class structure: int (*dev_uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp, char *buffer, int buffer_size); void (*dev_release)(struct device *dev); And one pointer: struct device_attribute * dev_attrs; which all corrispond with the same thing as the "normal" class devices do, yet this is for when a struct device is bound to a class. Someday soon, struct class_device will go away, and then the other fields in this structure can be removed too. But this is necessary in order to get the transition to work properly. Tested out on a network core patch that converted it to use struct device instead of struct class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add groups support to struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | This is needed for the network class devices in order to be able to convert over to use struct device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* PM: no suspend_prepare() phaseDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the new suspend_prepare() phase. It doesn't seem very usable, has never been tested, doesn't address fault cleanup, and would need a sibling resume_complete(); plus there are no real use cases. It could be restored later if those issues get resolved. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Suspend infrastructure cleanup and extensionLinus Torvalds2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Allow devices to participate in the suspend process more intimately, in particular, allow the final phase (with interrupts disabled) to also be open to normal devices, not just system devices. Also, allow classes to participate in device suspend. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: add const to class_createMiguel Ojeda Sandonis2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds const to class_create second parameter, because: struct class { const char * name; /*...*/ } Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* device_create(): make fmt argument 'const char *'Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* class_device_create(): make fmt argument 'const char *'Dmitry Torokhov2006-09-26
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver Core: Make dev_info and friends print the bus name if there ↵Alan Stern2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | is no driver This patch (as721) makes dev_info and related macros print the device's bus name if the device doesn't have a driver, instead of printing just a blank. If the device isn't on a bus either... well, then it does leave a blank space. But it will be easier for someone else to change if they want. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver core: allow struct device to have a dev_tGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | This is the first step in moving class_device to being replaced by struct device. It allows struct device to export a dev_t and makes it easy to dynamically create and destroy struct device as long as they are associated with a specific class. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver Core: remove unused exportsGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-21
| | | | | Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse2006-05-24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h include/asm-sparc/unistd.h include/asm-sparc64/unistd.h Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [CLASS DEVICE]: add attribute_group creationStephen Hemminger2006-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the support of attribute groups in class_device's to allow groups to be created as part of the registration process. This allows network device's to avoid race between registration and creating groups. Note that unlike attributes that are a property of the class object, the groups are a property of the class_device object. This is done because there are different types of network devices (wireless for example). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/David Woodhouse2006-04-26
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2006-03-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: fixed path to moved file in include/linux/device.h Fix spelling in E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT Kconfig description Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware: fix firmware URL Documentation: Update to BUG-HUNTING Remove superfluous NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN define add "tags" to .gitignore Fix "frist", "fisrt", typos fix rwlock usage example It's UTF-8
| * fixed path to moved file in include/linux/device.hRytchkov Alexey2006-03-21
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Merge ../linux-2.6James Bottomley2006-03-21
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| * [PATCH] Driver core: add macros notice(), dev_notice()Tilman Schmidt2006-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both usb.h and device.h have collections of convenience macros for printk() with the KERN_ERR, KERN_WARNING, and KERN_NOTICE severity levels. This patch adds macros for the KERN_NOTICE level which was so far uncatered for. These macros already exist privately in drivers/isdn/gigaset/gigaset.h (currently in the process of being submitted for the kernel tree) but they really belong with their brothers and sisters in include/linux/{device,usb}.h. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [SCSI] drivers/base/bus.c - export reprobeMoore, Eric2006-03-14
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding support for exposing hidden raid components for sg interface. The sdev->no_uld_attach flag will set set accordingly. The sas module supports adding/removing raid volumes using online storage management application interface. This patch was provided to me by Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* [PATCH] Add bus_type probe, remove, shutdown methods.Russell King2006-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add bus_type probe, remove and shutdown methods to replace the corresponding methods in struct device_driver. This matches the way we handle the suspend/resume methods. Since the bus methods override the device_driver methods, warn if a device driver is registered whose methods will not be called. The long-term idea is to remove the device_driver methods entirely. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers2006-01-04
| | | | | | | | | Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Create platform_device.h to contain all the platform device details.Russell King2005-10-29
| | | | | | | | Convert everyone who uses platform_bus_type to include linux/platform_device.h. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] DRIVER MODEL: Get rid of the obsolete tri-level suspend/resume callbacksRussell King2005-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level. Then all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level. However, with PM v2, to maintain compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2 suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing drivers continued to work. Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary, we can remove it. Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver Core: document struct class_device properlyGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-10-28
| | | | Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver Core: add the ability for class_device structures to be nestedGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows struct class_device to be nested, so that another struct class_device can be the parent of a new one, instead of only having the struct class be the parent. This will allow us to (hopefully) fix up the input and video class subsystem mess. But please people, don't go crazy and start making huge trees of class devices, you should only need 2 levels deep to get everything to work (remember to use a class_interface to get notification of a new class device being added to the system.) Oh, this also allows us to have the possibility of potentially, someday, moving /sys/block into /sys/class. The main hindrance is that pesky /dev numberspace issue... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] add sysfs attr to re-emit device hotplug eventKay Sievers2005-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | A "coldplug + udevstart" can be simple like this: for i in /sys/block/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done for i in /sys/class/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done for i in /sys/bus/*/devices/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver core: pass interface to class interface methodsDmitry Torokhov2005-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | Driver core: pass interface to class intreface methods Pass interface as argument to add() and remove() class interface methods. This way a subsystem can implement generic add/remove handlers and then call interface-specific ones. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] driver core: add helper device_is_registered()Daniel Ritz2005-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | add the helper and use it instead of open coding the klist_node_attached() check (which is a layering violation IMHO) idea by Alan Stern. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...Len Brown2005-07-12
|\ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * [ACPI] Bind PCI devices with ACPI devicesDavid Shaohua Li2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the framework for binding physical devices with ACPI devices. A physical bus like PCI bus should create a 'acpi_bus_type', with: .find_device: For device which has parent such as normal PCI devices. .find_bridge: It's for special devices, such as PCI root bridge or IDE controller. Such devices generally haven't a parent or ->bus. We use the special method to get an ACPI handle. Uses new field in struct device: firmware_data http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4277 Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | [PATCH] driver core: change bus_rescan_devices to return voidGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No one was looking at the return value of bus_rescan_devices, and it really wasn't anything that anyone in the kernel would ever care about. So change it which enabled some counting code to be removed also. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] driver core: add bus_find_device & driver_find_device functionsCornelia Huck2005-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add bus_find_device() and driver_find_device() which allow searching for a device in the bus's resp. the driver's klist and obtain a reference on it. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] Driver core: change device_attribute callbacksYani Ioannou2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the device_attribute paramerter to the device_attribute store and show sysfs callback functions, and passes a reference to the attribute when the callbacks are called. Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] Driver Core: fix bk-driver-core kills ppc64Patrick Mochel2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no check to see if the device is already bound to a driver, which could do bad things. The first thing to go wrong is that it will try to match a driver with a device already bound to one. In some cases (it appears with USB with drivers/usb/core/usb.c::usb_match_id()), some drivers will match a device based on the class type, so it would be common (especially for HID devices) to match a device that is already bound. The fun comes when ->probe() is called, it fails, then driver_probe_device() does this: dev->driver = NULL; Later on, that pointer could be be dereferenced without checking and cause hell to break loose. This problem could be nasty. It's very hardware dependent, since some devices could have a different set of matching qualifiers than others. Now, I don't quite see exactly where/how you were getting that crash. You're dereferencing bad memory, but I'm not sure which pointer was bad and where it came from, but it could have come from a couple of different places. The patch below will hopefully fix it all up for you. It's against 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, and does the following: - Move logic to driver_probe_device() and comments uncommon returns: 1 - If device is bound 0 - If device not bound, and no error error - If there was an error. - Move locking to caller of that function, since we want to lock a device for the entire time we're trying to bind it to a driver (to prevent against a driver being loaded at the same time). - Update __device_attach() and __driver_attach() to do that locking. - Check if device is already bound in __driver_attach() - Update the converse device_release_driver() so it locks the device around all of the operations. - Mark driver_probe_device() as static and remove export. It's an internal function, it should stay that way, and there are no other callers. If there is ever a need to export it, we can audit it as necessary. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Use a klist for device child lists.mochel@digitalimplant.org2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Use klist iterator in device_for_each_child(), making it safe to use for removing devices. - Remove unused list_to_dev() function. - Kills all usage of devices_subsys.rwsem. Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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