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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2007-04-01 23:49:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-02 10:06:09 -0700
commit0c84ce268b69855919b6ac7edc8f11caf21e9c88 (patch)
tree64e1fca7d80026db60ed4dde751d553193587034 /kernel
parentbcd9b89c02295b075fda4bdb666f6641f8212226 (diff)
[PATCH] driver core: fix built-in drivers sysfs links
built-in drivers had broken sysfs links that caused bootup hangs for certain driver unregistry sequences. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index fbc51de6444..dcdb32b8b13 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2384,8 +2384,13 @@ void module_add_driver(struct module *mod, struct device_driver *drv)
/* Lookup built-in module entry in /sys/modules */
mkobj = kset_find_obj(&module_subsys.kset, drv->mod_name);
- if (mkobj)
+ if (mkobj) {
mk = container_of(mkobj, struct module_kobject, kobj);
+ /* remember our module structure */
+ drv->mkobj = mk;
+ /* kset_find_obj took a reference */
+ kobject_put(mkobj);
+ }
}
if (!mk)
@@ -2405,17 +2410,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(module_add_driver);
void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
{
+ struct module_kobject *mk = NULL;
char *driver_name;
if (!drv)
return;
sysfs_remove_link(&drv->kobj, "module");
- if (drv->owner && drv->owner->mkobj.drivers_dir) {
+
+ if (drv->owner)
+ mk = &drv->owner->mkobj;
+ else if (drv->mkobj)
+ mk = drv->mkobj;
+ if (mk && mk->drivers_dir) {
driver_name = make_driver_name(drv);
if (driver_name) {
- sysfs_remove_link(drv->owner->mkobj.drivers_dir,
- driver_name);
+ sysfs_remove_link(mk->drivers_dir, driver_name);
kfree(driver_name);
}
}