From: Kay Sievers Subject: Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered drivers We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully. Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo. Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/bus.c | 4 +++- drivers/base/core.c | 5 ++++- drivers/base/driver.c | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/bus.c +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -700,8 +700,10 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver } kobject_uevent(&priv->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); - return error; + return 0; out_unregister: + kfree(drv->p); + drv->p = NULL; kobject_put(&priv->kobj); out_put_bus: bus_put(bus); --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) } if (!dev_name(dev)) - goto done; + goto name_error; pr_debug("device: '%s': %s\n", dev_name(dev), __func__); @@ -978,6 +978,9 @@ done: cleanup_device_parent(dev); if (parent) put_device(parent); +name_error: + kfree(dev->p); + dev->p = NULL; goto done; } --- a/drivers/base/driver.c +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c @@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_register); */ void driver_unregister(struct device_driver *drv) { + if (!drv || !drv->p) { + WARN(1, "Unexpected driver unregister!\n"); + return; + } driver_remove_groups(drv, drv->groups); bus_remove_driver(drv); }