Hi, Greg
On 2022/10/25 19:50, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 07:39:57PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
While doing fault injection test, I got the following report:
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kobject: '(null)' (0000000039956980): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6306 at kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0
CPU: 3 PID: 6306 Comm: 283 Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc2-00005-g307c1086d7c9 #1253
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
cdev_device_add+0x15e/0x1b0
__iio_device_register+0x13b4/0x1af0 [industrialio]
__devm_iio_device_register+0x22/0x90 [industrialio]
max517_probe+0x3d8/0x6b4 [max517]
i2c_device_probe+0xa81/0xc00
When device_add() is injected fault and returns error, if dev->devt is not set,
cdev_add() is not called, cdev_del() is not needed. Fix this by checking dev->devt
in error path.
Nit, please wrap your changelog text at 72 columns.
Fixes: 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2:
Add information to update commit message.
v1 link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1959fa74-b06c-b8bc-d14f-b71e5c4290ee@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
---
fs/char_dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index ba0ded7842a7..3f667292608c 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ int cdev_device_add(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev)
}
rc = device_add(dev);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc && dev->devt)
No, this is a layering violation and one that you do not know is really
going to be true or not. the devt being present, or not, should not be
an issue of if the device_add failed or not. This isn't correct, sorry.
Do you mean it's not a bug or the warn can be ignored or it's bug in
driver ?
I see devt is checked before calling cdev_del() in cdev_device_del().
Thanks,
Yang
thanks,
greg k-h
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