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This is not as straightforward a conversion as the others in this series. These drivers did not originally make use of kobj.parent so they likely suffered from a use after free bug if someone unregistered the devices while they are being used. In order to make the conversions, switch from device_register to device_initialize / cdev_device_add. In build.c, this patch unwinds a complicated mess of extra get_device/put_devices and reference tracking by moving device_initialize early in the attach process. Then it always uses put_device and instead of using device_unregister and extra get_devices everywhere we just use cdev_device_del and one put_device once everything is completely done. This simplifies things dramatically and makes it easier to reason about. In vmt.c, the patch pushes device initialization up to the beginning of the device creation and then that function only needs to use put_device in the error path which simplifies things a good deal. Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.