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>
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Alan Stern 2007-04-26 00:12:04 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent fa1a8c23eb
commit 523ded71de
4 changed files with 29 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -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);