From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:00:24 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: pktcdvd: fix BUG caused by sysfs module reference semantics change
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~24457^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fffe487d59ba4017c7c62b06667ca4a226cee651;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

pktcdvd: fix BUG caused by sysfs module reference semantics change

pkt_setup_dev() expects module reference to be held on invocation.
This used to be true for sysfs callbacks but not anymore.  Test and
grab module reference around pkt_setup_dev() in
class_pktcdvd_store_add().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
index a8130a4ad6d4..a5ee21319d37 100644
--- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
@@ -358,10 +358,19 @@ static ssize_t class_pktcdvd_store_add(struct class *c, const char *buf,
 					size_t count)
 {
 	unsigned int major, minor;
+
 	if (sscanf(buf, "%u:%u", &major, &minor) == 2) {
+		/* pkt_setup_dev() expects caller to hold reference to self */
+		if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
+			return -ENODEV;
+
 		pkt_setup_dev(MKDEV(major, minor), NULL);
+
+		module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+
 		return count;
 	}
+
 	return -EINVAL;
 }