[PATCH] ARM: pxa: make pwm driver module_platform_driver
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Fri Aug 9 03:22:25 EDT 2013
Dear Mike Dunn,
> Commit 76abbdde2d95a3807d0dc6bf9f84d03d0dbd4f3d
>
> pwm: Add sysfs interface
>
> causes a kernel oops due to a null pointer dereference on pxa platforms.
> This happens because the class added by the patch is registered in a
> subsys_initcall (initcall4), but the pxa pwm driver is registered in
> arch_initcall (initcall3). If the class is not registered before the
> driver probe function runs, the oops occurs in device_add() when the
> uninitialized pointers in struct class are dereferenced. I don't see a
> reason that the driver must be an arch_initcall, so this patch makes it a
> regular module_platform_driver (initcall6), preventing the oops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn at newsguy.com>
> ---
> drivers/pwm/pwm-pxa.c | 12 +-----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-pxa.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-pxa.c
> index dc97175..a4d2164 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-pxa.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-pxa.c
> @@ -182,16 +182,6 @@ static struct platform_driver pwm_driver = {
> .id_table = pwm_id_table,
> };
>
> -static int __init pwm_init(void)
> -{
> - return platform_driver_register(&pwm_driver);
> -}
> -arch_initcall(pwm_init);
> -
> -static void __exit pwm_exit(void)
> -{
> - platform_driver_unregister(&pwm_driver);
> -}
> -module_exit(pwm_exit);
> +module_platform_driver(pwm_driver);
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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