From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:26:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc4~97 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdb32706f6948238ed6d1d85473c64c27366e9e9;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter Plip passes a string "name" that is allocated on stack to parport_register_device. parport_register_device holds the pointer to "name" and when the registering function exits, it points nowhere. On some machine, this bug causes bad names to appear in /proc, such as /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/devices/T^/�X^/�, on others, the plip proc node is completely missing. The patch also fixes documentation to note this requirement. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/parport-lowlevel.txt b/Documentation/parport-lowlevel.txt index 265fcdcb8e5..120eb20dbb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/parport-lowlevel.txt +++ b/Documentation/parport-lowlevel.txt @@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ Use this function to register your device driver on a parallel port ('port'). Once you have done that, you will be able to use parport_claim and parport_release in order to use the port. +The ('name') argument is the name of the device that appears in /proc +filesystem. The string must be valid for the whole lifetime of the +device (until parport_unregister_device is called). + This function will register three callbacks into your driver: 'preempt', 'wakeup' and 'irq'. Each of these may be NULL in order to indicate that you do not want a callback. diff --git a/drivers/net/plip.c b/drivers/net/plip.c index baf2cbfc886..57c98669984 100644 --- a/drivers/net/plip.c +++ b/drivers/net/plip.c @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ static void plip_attach (struct parport *port) nl = netdev_priv(dev); nl->dev = dev; - nl->pardev = parport_register_device(port, name, plip_preempt, + nl->pardev = parport_register_device(port, dev->name, plip_preempt, plip_wakeup, plip_interrupt, 0, dev);