From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 06:49:48 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] driver core: fix built-in drivers sysfs links
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc6~27
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c84ce268b69855919b6ac7edc8f11caf21e9c88;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[PATCH] driver core: fix built-in drivers sysfs links

built-in drivers had broken sysfs links that caused bootup hangs for
certain driver unregistry sequences.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index caad9bba965..5cf30e95c8b 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct device_driver {
 
 	struct module		* owner;
 	const char 		* mod_name;	/* used for built-in modules */
+	struct module_kobject	* mkobj;
 
 	int	(*probe)	(struct device * dev);
 	int	(*remove)	(struct device * dev);
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index fbc51de6444..dcdb32b8b13 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2384,8 +2384,13 @@ void module_add_driver(struct module *mod, struct device_driver *drv)
 
 		/* Lookup built-in module entry in /sys/modules */
 		mkobj = kset_find_obj(&module_subsys.kset, drv->mod_name);
-		if (mkobj)
+		if (mkobj) {
 			mk = container_of(mkobj, struct module_kobject, kobj);
+			/* remember our module structure */
+			drv->mkobj = mk;
+			/* kset_find_obj took a reference */
+			kobject_put(mkobj);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (!mk)
@@ -2405,17 +2410,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(module_add_driver);
 
 void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
 {
+	struct module_kobject *mk = NULL;
 	char *driver_name;
 
 	if (!drv)
 		return;
 
 	sysfs_remove_link(&drv->kobj, "module");
-	if (drv->owner && drv->owner->mkobj.drivers_dir) {
+
+	if (drv->owner)
+		mk = &drv->owner->mkobj;
+	else if (drv->mkobj)
+		mk = drv->mkobj;
+	if (mk && mk->drivers_dir) {
 		driver_name = make_driver_name(drv);
 		if (driver_name) {
-			sysfs_remove_link(drv->owner->mkobj.drivers_dir,
-					  driver_name);
+			sysfs_remove_link(mk->drivers_dir, driver_name);
 			kfree(driver_name);
 		}
 	}