[PATCH] serial: amba-pl011: fix regression, causing an Oops on rmmod

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Apr 5 08:19:26 PDT 2014


ROTFL.  What did I say about this solution... seems I was right all
along.

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 04:31:08PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> A recent commit ef2889f7ffee67f0aed49e854c72be63f1466759 "serial: pl011:
> Move uart_register_driver call to device probe" introduced a regression,
> causing the pl011 driver to Oops if more than 1 port have been probed. Fix
> the Oops by only calling uart_unregister_driver() once after the last port
> has been removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> index d4eda24..07325f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> @@ -2176,6 +2176,7 @@ static int pl011_probe(struct amba_device *dev, const struct amba_id *id)
>  static int pl011_remove(struct amba_device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct uart_amba_port *uap = amba_get_drvdata(dev);
> +	bool busy = false;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	uart_remove_one_port(&amba_reg, &uap->port);
> @@ -2183,9 +2184,12 @@ static int pl011_remove(struct amba_device *dev)
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(amba_ports); i++)
>  		if (amba_ports[i] == uap)
>  			amba_ports[i] = NULL;
> +		else if (amba_ports[i])
> +			busy = true;
>  
>  	pl011_dma_remove(uap);
> -	uart_unregister_driver(&amba_reg);
> +	if (!busy)
> +		uart_unregister_driver(&amba_reg);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> 
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