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* [PATCH] uio: Fix uio driver to refcount device
@ 2015-03-11 15:31 Brian Russell
  2015-03-11 15:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Brian Russell @ 2015-03-11 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hans J. Koch, Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: linux-kernel

Protect uio driver from crashing if its owner is hot unplugged while there
are open fds.
Signed-off-by: Brian Russell <brussell@brocade.com>
---
 drivers/uio/uio.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index 6276f13..70ce015 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -434,9 +434,11 @@ static int uio_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	get_device(idev);
+
 	if (!try_module_get(idev->owner)) {
 		ret = -ENODEV;
-		goto out;
+		goto err_module_get;
 	}
 
 	listener = kmalloc(sizeof(*listener), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -462,6 +464,9 @@ err_infoopen:
 err_alloc_listener:
 	module_put(idev->owner);
 
+err_module_get:
+	put_device(idev);
+
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -485,6 +490,7 @@ static int uio_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
 
 	module_put(idev->owner);
 	kfree(listener);
+	put_device(idev);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.4

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