Re: [PATCH v2] uio: ensure class is registered before devices

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:34:50PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 16/08/2018 12:04:13+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:34:38AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > On 16/08/2018 10:01:12+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > > > When both uio and the uio drivers are built in the kernel, it is possible
> > > > > for a driver to register devices before the uio class is registered.
> > > > 
> > > > How does this happen?  The link order should solve this issue, right?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sure, if we can ensure uio_init() is called before any driver calls
> > > uio_register_device() then this would not happen. However, I'm not sure
> > > how you would want to achieve that.
> > 
> > That is the job of the link order, does this not work properly today?
> > How have you triggered this so that you could test your patch?
> > 
> 
> I have a (not yet upstreamed) MFD driver in drivers/mfd that is
> registering the uio device. It mostly look like uio_pci_generic.c.
> 
> When compiling both as builtin, it will crash that way.
> 
> There are no link dependency between uio_init and uio_register_device
> calls so I guess the linker can't reorder that properly.

Ah, ok, yes, that will break, I was looking at the kernel tree _today_ :)

I'll queue this up after 4.19-rc1 is out, thanks.

greg k-h