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Subject[PATCH 1/9] devres: WARN() and return, don't crash on device_del() of uninitialized device
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

I just debugged an obscure crash caused by a device_del() of a all NULL'd
out struct device (in usb-serial) and found that a patch like this one would
have saved me time (in addition to improved chances of a bug report from
users hitting similar driver bugs).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/base/devres.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index e8beb8e..05dd307 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -428,6 +428,9 @@ int devres_release_all(struct device *dev)
{
unsigned long flags;

+ /* Looks like an uninitialized device structure */
+ if (WARN_ON(dev->devres_head.next == NULL))
+ return -ENODEV;
spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->devres_lock, flags);
return release_nodes(dev, dev->devres_head.next, &dev->devres_head,
flags);
--
1.6.3.2


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