From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] input: make serio_register_driver() return error code
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:06:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061107120605.GA13896@localhost> (raw)
serio_register_driver() may fail under memory shortage.
When serio_register_driver() called, it queues SERIO_REGISTER_DRIVER
event into global serio_event_list, and then kseriod kernel thread
handles that event and do driver_register().
But event allocation by serio_register_driver() may fail.
Because it is GFP_ATOMIC allocation. It will cause the problem
by serio_unregister_driver() with not being registered driver
at module_exit() time
This patch makes serio_register_driver() call driver_register()
directly instead of kseriod so that it can check whether
driver_register() is succeeded or not.
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
drivers/input/serio/serio.c | 18 ++++--------------
include/linux/serio.h | 7 +------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
Index: work-fault-inject/drivers/input/serio/serio.c
===================================================================
--- work-fault-inject.orig/drivers/input/serio/serio.c
+++ work-fault-inject/drivers/input/serio/serio.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__serio_register_port);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(serio_unregister_port);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(serio_unregister_child_port);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__serio_unregister_port_delayed);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__serio_register_driver);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(serio_register_driver);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(serio_unregister_driver);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(serio_open);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(serio_close);
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ enum serio_event_type {
SERIO_RECONNECT,
SERIO_REGISTER_PORT,
SERIO_UNREGISTER_PORT,
- SERIO_REGISTER_DRIVER,
};
struct serio_event {
@@ -322,10 +321,6 @@ static void serio_handle_event(void)
serio_find_driver(event->object);
break;
- case SERIO_REGISTER_DRIVER:
- serio_add_driver(event->object);
- break;
-
default:
break;
}
@@ -791,22 +786,17 @@ static struct bus_type serio_bus = {
.remove = serio_driver_remove,
};
-static void serio_add_driver(struct serio_driver *drv)
+int serio_register_driver(struct serio_driver *drv)
{
int error;
+ drv->driver.bus = &serio_bus;
error = driver_register(&drv->driver);
if (error)
printk(KERN_ERR
"serio: driver_register() failed for %s, error: %d\n",
drv->driver.name, error);
-}
-
-void __serio_register_driver(struct serio_driver *drv, struct module *owner)
-{
- drv->driver.bus = &serio_bus;
-
- serio_queue_event(drv, owner, SERIO_REGISTER_DRIVER);
+ return error;
}
void serio_unregister_driver(struct serio_driver *drv)
Index: work-fault-inject/include/linux/serio.h
===================================================================
--- work-fault-inject.orig/include/linux/serio.h
+++ work-fault-inject/include/linux/serio.h
@@ -91,12 +91,7 @@ static inline void serio_unregister_port
__serio_unregister_port_delayed(serio, THIS_MODULE);
}
-void __serio_register_driver(struct serio_driver *drv, struct module *owner);
-static inline void serio_register_driver(struct serio_driver *drv)
-{
- __serio_register_driver(drv, THIS_MODULE);
-}
-
+int serio_register_driver(struct serio_driver *drv);
void serio_unregister_driver(struct serio_driver *drv);
static inline int serio_write(struct serio *serio, unsigned char data)
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-07 12:06 Akinobu Mita [this message]
2006-11-07 14:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: make serio_register_driver() return error code Dmitry Torokhov
2006-11-08 12:36 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-11-08 12:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] input: make serio_register_driver() return error Akinobu Mita
2006-11-08 12:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] input: check serio_register_driver() error Akinobu Mita
2006-11-08 12:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] input: check whether serio dirver registration is completed Akinobu Mita
2006-11-11 16:12 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-11-08 12:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] input: change to GFP_KERNEL for SERIO_REGISTER_DRIVER event allocation Akinobu Mita
2006-11-17 6:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: make serio_register_driver() return error code Dmitry Torokhov
2006-11-18 6:51 ` Akinobu Mita
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