On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:33:26PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > ULPI registers it's bus at module_init so if the bus fails to register, the > > module will fail to load and all will be well in the world. > > > > However, if the ULPI code is built-in rather than a module, the bus > > initialization may fail but we'd still try to register drivers later onto > > a non-existant bus, which will panic the kernel. > > > > Fix that by checking that the bus was indeed initialized before trying to > > register drivers on top of it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c | 4 ++++ > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c b/drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c > > index 0e6f968..0b0a5e7 100644 > > --- a/drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c > > +++ b/drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c > > @@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ int ulpi_register_driver(struct ulpi_driver *drv) > > if (!drv->probe) > > return -EINVAL; > > > > + /* Was the bus registered successfully? */ > > + if (!ulpi_bus.p) > > + return -ENODEV; > > Ick, no, don't go mucking around in the bus internals like this, that's > not ok. You should either "know" the bus is registered, or something is > really wrong with the design here. can't we use a variable which can be initialized to 1 in ulpi_init() if the bus registers successfully and later check that? regards sudip > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html