From 014c90dbb9b63bae067afc80a7931a76c5268ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:00:12 -0700 Subject: driver core: prevent device_for_each_child from oopsing David Vrabel noticed that the wireless usb stack likes to call device_for_each_chile() with an empty bus. This used to work fine, but now oopses. This patch fixes the oops and makes the code behave like it used to. Reported-by: David Vrabel Tested-by: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/base/core.c') diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index e73c92d13a2..d230ff4b3ee 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1142,6 +1142,9 @@ int device_for_each_child(struct device *parent, void *data, struct device *child; int error = 0; + if (!parent->p) + return 0; + klist_iter_init(&parent->p->klist_children, &i); while ((child = next_device(&i)) && !error) error = fn(child, data); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:45 -0700 Subject: driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path notice one system /proc/iomem some entries missed the name for pci_devices it turns that dev->dev.kobj name is changed after device_add. for pci code: via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.add (aka acpi_pci_root_add) ==> pci_acpi_scan_root is used to scan pci bus/device, and at the same time we read the resource for pci_dev in the pci_read_bases, we have res->name = pci_name(pci_dev); pci_name is calling dev_name. later via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.start (aka acpi_pci_root_start) ==> pci_bus_add_device to add all pci_dev in kobj tree. pci_bus_add_device will call device_add. actually in device_add /* first, register with generic layer. */ error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev)); if (error) goto Error; will get one new name for that kobj, old name is freed. [Impact: fix corrupted names in /proc/iomem ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/base/core.c') diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index d230ff4b3ee..4aa527b8a91 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -891,7 +891,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) set_dev_node(dev, dev_to_node(parent)); /* first, register with generic layer. */ - error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev)); + /* we require the name to be set before, and pass NULL */ + error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, NULL); if (error) goto Error; -- cgit v1.2.3