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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2012-01-24 18:34:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2012-01-25 00:00:34 (GMT) |
| commit | fde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da (patch) | |
| tree | ecc24bd2702cb7cb32cd4d22729541d5c79cee39 /drivers/media/video/cx18 | |
| parent | 2b31594a9523449b168946725689d039c80204de (diff) | |
| download | linux-fde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da.tar.xz | |
Driver core: driver_find() drops reference before returning
As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch
(as1510) changes driver_find(); it now drops the reference it acquires
before returning. The patch also adjusts all the callers of
driver_find() to remove the now unnecessary calls to put_driver().
In addition, the patch adds a warning to driver_find(): Callers must
make sure the driver they are searching for does not get unloaded
while they are using it. This has always been the case; driver_find()
has never prevented a driver from being unregistered or unloaded.
Hence the patch will not introduce any new bugs. The existing callers
all seem to be okay in this respect, however I don't understand the
video drivers well enough to be certain about them.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
CC: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
CC: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/video/cx18')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-alsa-main.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-alsa-main.c b/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-alsa-main.c index a1e6c2a..e118361 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-alsa-main.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-alsa-main.c @@ -285,7 +285,6 @@ static void __exit cx18_alsa_exit(void) drv = driver_find("cx18", &pci_bus_type); ret = driver_for_each_device(drv, NULL, NULL, cx18_alsa_exit_callback); - put_driver(drv); cx18_ext_init = NULL; printk(KERN_INFO "cx18-alsa: module unload complete\n"); |