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authorUwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>2008-04-11 11:07:39 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-04-19 19:10:18 -0700
commit610ad5064cb90aec35f5837bbde3d316fe02aca7 (patch)
tree7c254ffa06ebd33b5a5b40dc28147eeba615d374 /drivers/uio
parentb54f2863a26d2b7c002d96abcde149940733c8e6 (diff)
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UIO: hold a reference to the device's owner while the device is open
Otherwise the device might just disappear while /dev/uioX is being used which results in an Oops. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/uio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/uio/uio.c36
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index 11759080ca54..55cc7b80422a 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -301,23 +301,33 @@ static int uio_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
if (!idev)
return -ENODEV;
+ if (!try_module_get(idev->owner))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
listener = kmalloc(sizeof(*listener), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!listener)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!listener) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_alloc_listener;
+ }
listener->dev = idev;
listener->event_count = atomic_read(&idev->event);
filep->private_data = listener;
if (idev->info->open) {
- if (!try_module_get(idev->owner))
- return -ENODEV;
ret = idev->info->open(idev->info, inode);
- module_put(idev->owner);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_infoopen;
}
- if (ret)
- kfree(listener);
+ return 0;
+
+err_infoopen:
+
+ kfree(listener);
+err_alloc_listener:
+
+ module_put(idev->owner);
return ret;
}
@@ -336,12 +346,11 @@ static int uio_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
struct uio_listener *listener = filep->private_data;
struct uio_device *idev = listener->dev;
- if (idev->info->release) {
- if (!try_module_get(idev->owner))
- return -ENODEV;
+ if (idev->info->release)
ret = idev->info->release(idev->info, inode);
- module_put(idev->owner);
- }
+
+ module_put(idev->owner);
+
if (filep->f_flags & FASYNC)
ret = uio_fasync(-1, filep, 0);
kfree(listener);
@@ -510,10 +519,7 @@ static int uio_mmap(struct file *filep, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return -EINVAL;
if (idev->info->mmap) {
- if (!try_module_get(idev->owner))
- return -ENODEV;
ret = idev->info->mmap(idev->info, vma);
- module_put(idev->owner);
return ret;
}