[PATCH] mtd: avoid registering reboot notifier twice
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 22:59:52 PST 2015
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 02:08:50AM +0100, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> Calling mtd_device_parse_register with the same mtd_info
> (e.g. registering several partitions on a single device)
> would add the same reboot notifier twice, causing an
> infinte loop in notifier_chain_register during boot up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <nks at flawful.org>
Begrudgingly applied to l2-mtd.git. It's better to fix this bug than for
me just to complain about badly written board files and drivers...
> ---
> drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> index de79576..98efc1e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ int mtd_device_parse_register(struct mtd_info *mtd, const char * const *types,
> err = -ENODEV;
> }
>
Also added a FIXME comment here to note that some drivers are doing odd
things to require this workaround.
> - if (mtd->_reboot) {
> + if (mtd->_reboot && !mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call) {
> mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call = mtd_reboot_notifier;
> register_reboot_notifier(&mtd->reboot_notifier);
> }
Brian
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