Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered drivers
We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing
drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully.
Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo.
Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 4aa527b..1977d4b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@
}
if (!dev_name(dev))
- goto done;
+ goto name_error;
pr_debug("device: '%s': %s\n", dev_name(dev), __func__);
@@ -978,6 +978,9 @@
cleanup_device_parent(dev);
if (parent)
put_device(parent);
+name_error:
+ kfree(dev->p);
+ dev->p = NULL;
goto done;
}