From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:43:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: devres: WARN() and return, don't crash on device_del() of uninitialized device
X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eb8d3c604fe7496323efb9a858bef84c489ca584;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git

devres: WARN() and return, don't crash on device_del() of uninitialized device

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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index e8beb8e5b626..05dd307e8f02 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);