On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Modules registering driver with usb_serial_register_drivers() might
> forget to set .owner field. 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
> amba bus code, just like we did for platform_driver in
"amba"
> commit 9447057eaff8 ("platform_device: use a macro instead of
> platform_driver_register").
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 12 +++++++-----
> include/linux/usb/serial.h | 7 +++++--
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
> index f1e91eb7f8a4..a659f2096a1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
> @@ -1459,17 +1459,18 @@ static void usb_serial_deregister(struct usb_serial_driver *device)
> }
>
> /**
> - * usb_serial_register_drivers - register drivers for a usb-serial module
> + * __usb_serial_register_drivers - register drivers for a usb-serial module
> * @serial_drivers: NULL-terminated array of pointers to drivers to be registered
> + * @owner: owning module/driver
Just "module"
> * @name: name of the usb_driver for this set of @serial_drivers
> * @id_table: list of all devices this @serial_drivers set binds to
> *
> * Registers all the drivers in the @serial_drivers array, and dynamically
> * creates a struct usb_driver with the name @name and id_table of @id_table.
> */
> -int usb_serial_register_drivers(struct usb_serial_driver *const serial_drivers[],
> - const char *name,
> - const struct usb_device_id *id_table)
> +int __usb_serial_register_drivers(struct usb_serial_driver *const serial_drivers[],
> + struct module *owner, const char *name,
> + const struct usb_device_id *id_table)
Johan
