linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/4] core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:30:20 +0900
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/4] core: platform: add warning if driver has no
 owner

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:32:08PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> > +       if (!drv->owner)
> > +               printk(KERN_WARNING "Driver '%s' needs an owner", drv->name);
> 
> This showed up in next-20141110 and on ia64 I see 44 "needs an owner" messages,
> even from drivers like e1000.
> 
> Anyone else seeing anything like that? Or is some ia64 initialization path
> missing an update?

Yes, sorry, this patch is now reverted.

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/