staging: comedi: prevent auto-unconfig of manually configured devices
authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:59:55 +0000 (15:59 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:22:37 +0000 (14:22 -0800)
commit7d3135af399e92cf4c9bbc5f86b6c140aab3b88c
treef0f08ba341a42d521ca4149df60eb4bc5d2acc27
parent34b55d8c48f4f76044d8f4d6ec3dc786cf210312
staging: comedi: prevent auto-unconfig of manually configured devices

When a low-level comedi driver auto-configures a device, a `struct
comedi_dev_file_info` is allocated (as well as a `struct
comedi_device`) by `comedi_alloc_board_minor()`.  A pointer to the
hardware `struct device` is stored as a cookie in the `struct
comedi_dev_file_info`.  When the low-level comedi driver
auto-unconfigures the device, `comedi_auto_unconfig()` uses the cookie
to find the `struct comedi_dev_file_info` so it can detach the comedi
device from the driver, clean it up and free it.

A problem arises if the user manually unconfigures and reconfigures the
comedi device using the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl so that is no longer
associated with the original hardware device.  The problem is that the
cookie is not cleared, so that a call to `comedi_auto_unconfig()` from
the low-level driver will still find it, detach it, clean it up and free
it.

Stop this problem occurring by always clearing the `hardware_device`
cookie in the `struct comedi_dev_file_info` whenever the
`COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl call is successful.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c