Note: neither of the cdev instances in the mtd tree originally set the kobject parent. Thus, I'm reasonably confident that both these instances would have suffered from a minor use after free bug if the cdevs were open when the backing device was released.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <log...@deltatee.com> --- drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c | 8 +++++--- drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c index 85d54f3..a509f15 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c @@ -434,11 +434,10 @@ static int ubi_sysfs_init(struct ubi_device *ubi, int *ref) int err; ubi->dev.release = dev_release; - ubi->dev.devt = ubi->cdev.dev; ubi->dev.class = &ubi_class; ubi->dev.groups = ubi_dev_groups; dev_set_name(&ubi->dev, UBI_NAME_STR"%d", ubi->ubi_num); - err = device_register(&ubi->dev); + err = device_add(&ubi->dev); if (err) return err; @@ -508,12 +507,15 @@ static int uif_init(struct ubi_device *ubi, int *ref) return err; } + device_initialize(&ubi->dev); + ubi->dev.devt = dev; + ubi_assert(MINOR(dev) == 0); cdev_init(&ubi->cdev, &ubi_cdev_operations); dbg_gen("%s major is %u", ubi->ubi_name, MAJOR(dev)); ubi->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE; - err = cdev_add(&ubi->cdev, dev, 1); + err = device_add_cdev(&ubi->dev, &ubi->cdev); if (err) { ubi_err(ubi, "cannot add character device"); goto out_unreg; diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c index 7ac78c1..df84ba7 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c @@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ int ubi_create_volume(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_mkvol_req *req) struct ubi_volume *vol; struct ubi_vtbl_record vtbl_rec; struct ubi_eba_table *eba_tbl = NULL; - dev_t dev; if (ubi->ro_mode) return -EROFS; @@ -265,11 +264,13 @@ int ubi_create_volume(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_mkvol_req *req) vol->last_eb_bytes = vol->usable_leb_size; } + device_initialize(&vol->dev); + vol->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(ubi->cdev.dev), vol_id + 1); + /* Register character device for the volume */ cdev_init(&vol->cdev, &ubi_vol_cdev_operations); vol->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE; - dev = MKDEV(MAJOR(ubi->cdev.dev), vol_id + 1); - err = cdev_add(&vol->cdev, dev, 1); + err = device_add_cdev(&vol->dev, &vol->cdev); if (err) { ubi_err(ubi, "cannot add character device"); goto out_mapping; @@ -277,12 +278,11 @@ int ubi_create_volume(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_mkvol_req *req) vol->dev.release = vol_release; vol->dev.parent = &ubi->dev; - vol->dev.devt = dev; vol->dev.class = &ubi_class; vol->dev.groups = volume_dev_groups; dev_set_name(&vol->dev, "%s_%d", ubi->ubi_name, vol->vol_id); - err = device_register(&vol->dev); + err = device_add(&vol->dev); if (err) { ubi_err(ubi, "cannot register device"); goto out_cdev; -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm