Use a helper to set driver_override to the reduce amount of duplicated code. Make the driver_override field const char, because it is not modified by the core and it matches other subsystems. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 28 ++++------------------------ include/linux/hyperv.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c index 14de17087864..607e40aba18e 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -575,31 +575,11 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *dev, const char *buf, size_t count) { struct hv_device *hv_dev = device_to_hv_device(dev); - char *driver_override, *old, *cp; - - /* We need to keep extra room for a newline */ - if (count >= (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) - return -EINVAL; - - driver_override = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!driver_override) - return -ENOMEM; - - cp = strchr(driver_override, '\n'); - if (cp) - *cp = '\0'; - - device_lock(dev); - old = hv_dev->driver_override; - if (strlen(driver_override)) { - hv_dev->driver_override = driver_override; - } else { - kfree(driver_override); - hv_dev->driver_override = NULL; - } - device_unlock(dev); + int ret; - kfree(old); + ret = driver_set_override(dev, &hv_dev->driver_override, buf, count); + if (ret) + return ret; return count; } diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h index fe2e0179ed51..12e2336b23b7 100644 --- a/include/linux/hyperv.h +++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h @@ -1257,7 +1257,11 @@ struct hv_device { u16 device_id; struct device device; - char *driver_override; /* Driver name to force a match */ + /* + * Driver name to force a match. Do not set directly, because core + * frees it. Use driver_set_override() to set or clear it. + */ + const char *driver_override; struct vmbus_channel *channel; struct kset *channels_kset; -- 2.32.0