This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mei: prevent unloading mei hw modules while the device is opened.
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 154322f47376fed6ab1e4b350aa45fffa15a61aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:41:03 +0300
Subject: mei: prevent unloading mei hw modules while the device is opened.
chrdev_open() increases reference counter on cdev->owner. Instead of
assigning the owner to mei subsystem, the owner has to be set to the
underlaying HW module (mei_me or mei_txe), so once the device is opened
the HW module cannot be unloaded.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> #3.17+
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 8eb0a9500a90..e9513d651cd3 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ int mei_register(struct mei_device *dev, struct device *parent)
/* Fill in the data structures */
devno = MKDEV(MAJOR(mei_devt), dev->minor);
cdev_init(&dev->cdev, &mei_fops);
- dev->cdev.owner = mei_fops.owner;
+ dev->cdev.owner = parent->driver->owner;
/* Add the device */
ret = cdev_add(&dev->cdev, devno, 1);
--
2.4.6
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