mei: prevent unloading mei hw modules while the device is opened.
chrdev_open() increases reference counter on cdev->owner. Instead of
assigning the owner to mei subsystem, the owner has to be set to the
underlaying HW module (mei_me or mei_txe), so once the device is opened
the HW module cannot be unloaded.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.17+
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 8eb0a95..e9513d6 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@
/* Fill in the data structures */
devno = MKDEV(MAJOR(mei_devt), dev->minor);
cdev_init(&dev->cdev, &mei_fops);
- dev->cdev.owner = mei_fops.owner;
+ dev->cdev.owner = parent->driver->owner;
/* Add the device */
ret = cdev_add(&dev->cdev, devno, 1);