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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2007-04-26 00:12:04 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-04-27 10:57:32 -0700
commit523ded71de0c5e66973335bf99a80edfda9f401b (patch)
tree20f47e8ed91018977d9fb7f4169a6ef8db407b82 /include
parentfa1a8c23eb7d3ded8a3c6d0e653339a2bc7fca9e (diff)
device_schedule_callback() needs a module reference
This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being unloaded before the callback can run. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysfs.h4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index af603a13769..8511d14071b 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -367,8 +367,12 @@ extern int __must_check device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev,
struct bin_attribute *attr);
extern void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev,
struct bin_attribute *attr);
-extern int device_schedule_callback(struct device *dev,
- void (*func)(struct device *));
+extern int device_schedule_callback_owner(struct device *dev,
+ void (*func)(struct device *), struct module *owner);
+
+/* This is a macro to avoid include problems with THIS_MODULE */
+#define device_schedule_callback(dev, func) \
+ device_schedule_callback_owner(dev, func, THIS_MODULE)
/* device resource management */
typedef void (*dr_release_t)(struct device *dev, void *res);
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index fea9a6b3fb7..7d5d1ec95c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct sysfs_ops {
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
extern int sysfs_schedule_callback(struct kobject *kobj,
- void (*func)(void *), void *data);
+ void (*func)(void *), void *data, struct module *owner);
extern int __must_check
sysfs_create_dir(struct kobject *, struct dentry *);
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ extern int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
#else /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
static inline int sysfs_schedule_callback(struct kobject *kobj,
- void (*func)(void *), void *data)
+ void (*func)(void *), void *data, struct module *owner)
{
return -ENOSYS;
}