[PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref

From: Mark McLoughlin
Date: Thu Dec 04 2008 - 07:46:25 EST


Nothing takes a ref on virtio_pci, so even if you have
devices in use, rmmod will attempt to unload the module.

Fix by simply making each device take a ref on the module.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
index c7dc37c..147a17f 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ static int __devinit virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
return -ENODEV;
}

+ if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
/* allocate our structure and fill it out */
vp_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct virtio_pci_device), GFP_KERNEL);
if (vp_dev == NULL)
@@ -393,6 +396,7 @@ static void __devexit virtio_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
pci_release_regions(pci_dev);
pci_disable_device(pci_dev);
kfree(vp_dev);
+ module_put(THIS_MODULE);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PM
--
1.6.0.3

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/