[PATCH RESEND] spi: erase pointer to drvdata on removal

From: Vivien Didelot
Date: Mon Dec 03 2012 - 15:28:36 EST


Without this patch, a SPI device may keep its drvdata whereas it was unbound
from its driver. This may result in accessing an invalid pointer.

As for i2c-core, let the SPI core handle the removal of the device's drvdata,
after a remove(), or a probe() failure.

This is a resent of the previous patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/1/314

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c
index 84c2861..fe636fe 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -233,15 +233,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_bus_type);
static int spi_drv_probe(struct device *dev)
{
const struct spi_driver *sdrv = to_spi_driver(dev->driver);
+ struct spi_device *sdev = to_spi_device(dev);
+ int status;

- return sdrv->probe(to_spi_device(dev));
+ status = sdrv->probe(sdev);
+ if (status)
+ spi_set_drvdata(sdev, NULL);
+ return status;
}

static int spi_drv_remove(struct device *dev)
{
const struct spi_driver *sdrv = to_spi_driver(dev->driver);
+ struct spi_device *sdev = to_spi_device(dev);
+ int status;

- return sdrv->remove(to_spi_device(dev));
+ status = sdrv->remove(sdev);
+ if (status == 0)
+ spi_set_drvdata(sdev, NULL);
+ return status;
}

static void spi_drv_shutdown(struct device *dev)
--
1.7.11.7

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