Staging: asus_oled: fix NULL-ptr crash on unloading
authorPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:33:47 +0000 (16:33 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:17:02 +0000 (11:17 -0800)
commit 3589e74595a4332ebf77b5ed006f3c6686071ecd upstream.

Asus_oled triggers the following bug on module unloading:

 usbcore: deregistering interface driver asus-oled
 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
 IP: [<ffffffff8111292b>] sysfs_delete_link+0x30/0x66

 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81225373>] device_remove_class_symlinks+0x6b/0x70
  [<ffffffff812256a8>] device_del+0x9f/0x1ab
  [<ffffffff812257c5>] device_unregister+0x11/0x1e
  [<ffffffffa000cb82>] asus_oled_disconnect+0x4f/0x9e [asus_oled]
  [<ffffffff81277430>] usb_unbind_interface+0x54/0x103
  [<ffffffff812276c4>] __device_release_driver+0xa2/0xeb
  [<ffffffff81227794>] driver_detach+0x87/0xad
  [<ffffffff812269e9>] bus_remove_driver+0x91/0xc1
  [<ffffffff81227fb4>] driver_unregister+0x66/0x6e
  [<ffffffff812771ed>] usb_deregister+0xbb/0xc4
  [<ffffffffa000ce87>] asus_oled_exit+0x2f/0x31 [asus_oled]
  [<ffffffff81068365>] sys_delete_module+0x1b8/0x21b
  [<ffffffff810ae3de>] ? do_munmap+0x2ef/0x313
  [<ffffffff813699bb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is due to an incorrect destruction sequence in asus_oled_exit().

Fix the order, fixes the bug. Tested on an Asus G50V laptop only.

Cc: Jakub Schmidtke <sjakub@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/asus_oled/asus_oled.c

index 8894bd5..63bafbb 100644 (file)
@@ -811,10 +811,9 @@ error:
 
 static void __exit asus_oled_exit(void)
 {
+       usb_deregister(&oled_driver);
        class_remove_file(oled_class, &class_attr_version.attr);
        class_destroy(oled_class);
-
-       usb_deregister(&oled_driver);
 }
 
 module_init(asus_oled_init);