Modules registering driver with register_virtio_driver() might forget to
set .owner field. i2c-virtio.c for example has it missing. The field
is used by some of other kernel parts for reference counting
(try_module_get()), so it is expected that drivers will set it.
Solve the problem by moving this task away from the drivers to the core
virtio code, just like we did for platform_driver in
commit 9447057eaff8 ("platform_device: use a macro instead of
platform_driver_register").
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst | 1 -
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 6 ++++--
include/linux/virtio.h | 7 +++++--
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst
index e14c58796d25..e5de6f5d061a 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ like this::
static struct virtio_driver virtio_dummy_driver = {
.driver.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
- .driver.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.id_table = id_table,
.probe = virtio_dummy_probe,
.remove = virtio_dummy_remove,
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
index f173587893cb..9510c551dce8 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -362,14 +362,16 @@ static const struct bus_type virtio_bus = {
.remove = virtio_dev_remove,
};
-int register_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *driver)
+int __register_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *driver, struct module *owner)
{
/* Catch this early. */
BUG_ON(driver->feature_table_size && !driver->feature_table);
driver->driver.bus = &virtio_bus;
+ driver->driver.owner = owner;
+
return driver_register(&driver->driver);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_virtio_driver);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__register_virtio_driver);
void unregister_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *driver)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
index b0201747a263..26c4325aa373 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ size_t virtio_max_dma_size(const struct virtio_device *vdev);
/**
* struct virtio_driver - operations for a virtio I/O driver
- * @driver: underlying device driver (populate name and owner).
+ * @driver: underlying device driver (populate name).
* @id_table: the ids serviced by this driver.
* @feature_table: an array of feature numbers supported by this driver.
* @feature_table_size: number of entries in the feature table array.
@@ -208,7 +208,10 @@ static inline struct virtio_driver *drv_to_virtio(struct device_driver *drv)
return container_of(drv, struct virtio_driver, driver);
}
-int register_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *drv);
+/* use a macro to avoid include chaining to get THIS_MODULE */
+#define register_virtio_driver(drv) \
+ __register_virtio_driver(drv, THIS_MODULE)
+int __register_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *drv, struct module *owner);
void unregister_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *drv);
/* module_virtio_driver() - Helper macro for drivers that don't do
--
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