[PATCH] mtd: avoid registering reboot notifier twice

Niklas Cassel nks at flawful.org
Sat Jan 31 17:08:50 PST 2015


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>
---
 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;
 	}
 
-	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);
 	}
-- 
2.2.2




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