[PATCH] driver core: safely unbind drivers for devices not on a bus
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:52:25 +0000 (11:52 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:41:24 +0000 (11:41 -0700)
This patch (as667) changes the __device_release_driver() routine to
prevent it from crashing when it runs across a device not on any bus.
This seems logical, inasmuch as the corresponding bus_add_device()
routine has an explicit check allowing it to accept such devices.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/base/dd.c

index 730a9ce0a14a44d45c45fe34b15f1277157fe1d2..889c71111239436d1c9f705cfa5f32ff14ba6f0f 100644 (file)
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device * dev)
                sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "driver");
                klist_remove(&dev->knode_driver);
 
-               if (dev->bus->remove)
+               if (dev->bus && dev->bus->remove)
                        dev->bus->remove(dev);
                else if (drv->remove)
                        drv->remove(dev);