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 <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index c51f11b..8ae0f63 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@
*/
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);
}