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authorSergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>2021-06-22 01:50:57 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-06-22 20:01:16 +0300
commit9f0248ea476ee59d336d7c8bf1a5d0919d93d030 (patch)
treea012e1c1b0cd41284f25628478910cf3babdef03 /include/linux/wwan.h
parent322a0ba99c50d6abadeda709f0552eb8dac6668c (diff)
downloadlinux-9f0248ea476ee59d336d7c8bf1a5d0919d93d030.tar.xz
wwan: core: no more hold netdev ops owning module
The WWAN netdev ops owner holding was used to protect from the unexpected memory disappear. This approach causes a dependency cycle (driver -> core -> driver) and effectively prevents a WWAN driver unloading. E.g. WWAN hwsim could not be unloaded until all simulated devices are removed: ~# modprobe wwan_hwsim devices=2 ~# lsmod | grep wwan wwan_hwsim 16384 2 wwan 20480 1 wwan_hwsim ~# rmmod wwan_hwsim rmmod: ERROR: Module wwan_hwsim is in use ~# echo > /sys/kernel/debug/wwan_hwsim/hwsim0/destroy ~# echo > /sys/kernel/debug/wwan_hwsim/hwsim1/destroy ~# lsmod | grep wwan wwan_hwsim 16384 0 wwan 20480 1 wwan_hwsim ~# rmmod wwan_hwsim For a real device driver this will cause an inability to unload module until a served device is physically detached. Since the last commit we are removing all child netdev(s) when a driver unregister the netdev ops. This allows us to permit the driver unloading, since any sane driver will call ops unregistering on a device deinitialization. So, remove the holding of an ops owner to make it easier to unload a driver module. The owner field has also beed removed from the ops structure as there are no more users of this field. Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/wwan.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/wwan.h2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/wwan.h b/include/linux/wwan.h
index 34222230360c..e1981ea3a2fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/wwan.h
+++ b/include/linux/wwan.h
@@ -128,14 +128,12 @@ void *wwan_port_get_drvdata(struct wwan_port *port);
/**
* struct wwan_ops - WWAN device ops
- * @owner: module owner of the WWAN ops
* @priv_size: size of private netdev data area
* @setup: set up a new netdev
* @newlink: register the new netdev
* @dellink: remove the given netdev
*/
struct wwan_ops {
- struct module *owner;
unsigned int priv_size;
void (*setup)(struct net_device *dev);
int (*newlink)(void *ctxt, struct net_device *dev,