staging: comedi: prevent auto-unconfig of manually configured devices
authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:59:55 +0000 (15:59 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:44:08 +0000 (08:44 -0800)
commitbf302ba15f9fc5fa2d84c6eaa2e740a0e0bb596b
tree478dc45872780531d6dc9359310718021ee81f45
parente2abf662bcedc0be6f73e7575cc203a5e3c9262c
staging: comedi: prevent auto-unconfig of manually configured devices

commit 7d3135af399e92cf4c9bbc5f86b6c140aab3b88c upstream.

When a low-level comedi driver auto-configures a device, a `struct
comedi_dev_file_info` is allocated (as well as a `struct
comedi_device`) by `comedi_alloc_board_minor()`.  A pointer to the
hardware `struct device` is stored as a cookie in the `struct
comedi_dev_file_info`.  When the low-level comedi driver
auto-unconfigures the device, `comedi_auto_unconfig()` uses the cookie
to find the `struct comedi_dev_file_info` so it can detach the comedi
device from the driver, clean it up and free it.

A problem arises if the user manually unconfigures and reconfigures the
comedi device using the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl so that is no longer
associated with the original hardware device.  The problem is that the
cookie is not cleared, so that a call to `comedi_auto_unconfig()` from
the low-level driver will still find it, detach it, clean it up and free
it.

Stop this problem occurring by always clearing the `hardware_device`
cookie in the `struct comedi_dev_file_info` whenever the
`COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl call is successful.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c