From: Andrea Arcangeli This patch fixes some troubles that somebody reported me with the superio chips. In short rmmod parport_pc && cat /proc/iomem was good enough for crashing the box hard on some machine (and hwscan --printer was doing just that). The way the oops triggers is that iomem tries to vsprintf the p->name, but the p->name was a static string in the module address (now unloaded). The reason is that the superio chip scanning leaves up to two persistent ranges claimed. But the second (legacy) pass has no way to notice the resources are already reclaimed. Plus if the superio->io was different than the "io" variable (the range to scan for superio chips) the "io" range would generate a leak of the original "io" range too. I simply make sure to always release the requested space during the superio scan, and I make sure not to istantiate new ranges in the p->base that would cause the later parport scan to fail too (plus leaving up to leaked resources). The previous code that was returning values and was leaving garbage in there made no sense to me. My best guess (assuming I didn't misread it ;) is that probably somebody added the request_region without realizing they're pointing to the very same address that would be requested later (and nobody does accesses on those ranges until later, so it was very safe to claim it later). Disclaimer: I don't have the specs of the winbond and smsc at hand, I just guessed what they do from the code (nothing checks superio->io except get_superio_dma get_superio_irq, which made the thing enough self explainatory to fix it without specs) Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 47 ++++++++--------------------------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/parport/parport_pc.c~parport_pc-superio-chip-fixes drivers/parport/parport_pc.c --- 25/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c~parport_pc-superio-chip-fixes Thu Sep 30 17:25:38 2004 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c Thu Sep 30 17:25:38 2004 @@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ struct parport_operations parport_pc_ops #ifdef CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO /* Super-IO chipset detection, Winbond, SMSC */ -static int __devinit show_parconfig_smsc37c669(int io, int key) +static void __devinit show_parconfig_smsc37c669(int io, int key) { int cr1,cr4,cra,cr23,cr26,cr27,i=0; static const char *modes[]={ "SPP and Bidirectional (PS/2)", @@ -1261,26 +1261,17 @@ static int __devinit show_parconfig_smsc superios[i].io = 0x278; superios[i].irq = 5; } - if (io != superios[i].io) { - /* how many bytes? */ - if (!request_region(superios[i].io, 3, "smsc parport")) { - superios[i].io = 0; - return 0; - } - } d=(cr26 &0x0f); if((d==1) || (d==3)) superios[i].dma= d; else superios[i].dma= PARPORT_DMA_NONE; - return 1; } } - return 0; } -static int __devinit show_parconfig_winbond(int io, int key) +static void __devinit show_parconfig_winbond(int io, int key) { int cr30,cr60,cr61,cr70,cr74,crf0,i=0; static const char *modes[] = { @@ -1336,23 +1327,14 @@ static int __devinit show_parconfig_winb printk(KERN_INFO "Super-IO: too many chips!\n"); else { superios[i].io = (cr60<<8)|cr61; - if (io != superios[i].io) { - /* how many bytes? */ - if (!request_region(superios[i].io, 3, "winbond parport")) { - superios[i].io = 0; - return 0; - } - } superios[i].irq = cr70&0x0f; superios[i].dma = (((cr74 & 0x07) > 3) ? PARPORT_DMA_NONE : (cr74 & 0x07)); - return 1; } } - return 0; } -static int __devinit decode_winbond(int efer, int key, int devid, int devrev, int oldid) +static void __devinit decode_winbond(int efer, int key, int devid, int devrev, int oldid) { const char *type = "unknown"; int id,progif=2; @@ -1360,7 +1342,7 @@ static int __devinit decode_winbond(int if (devid == devrev) /* simple heuristics, we happened to read some non-winbond register */ - return 0; + return; id=(devid<<8) | devrev; @@ -1385,20 +1367,19 @@ static int __devinit decode_winbond(int efer, key, devid, devrev, oldid, type); if (progif == 2) - return show_parconfig_winbond(efer,key); - return 0; + show_parconfig_winbond(efer,key); } -static int __devinit decode_smsc(int efer, int key, int devid, int devrev) +static void __devinit decode_smsc(int efer, int key, int devid, int devrev) { const char *type = "unknown"; - int (*func)(int io, int key); + void (*func)(int io, int key); int id; if (devid == devrev) /* simple heuristics, we happened to read some non-smsc register */ - return 0; + return; func=NULL; id=(devid<<8) | devrev; @@ -1414,8 +1395,7 @@ static int __devinit decode_smsc(int efe efer, key, devid, devrev, type); if (func) - return func(efer,key); - return 0; + func(efer,key); } @@ -1448,8 +1428,7 @@ static void __devinit winbond_check(int if ((x_devid == devid) && (x_devrev == devrev) && (x_oldid == oldid)) goto out; /* protection against false positives */ - if (decode_winbond(io,key,devid,devrev,oldid)); - return; + decode_winbond(io,key,devid,devrev,oldid); out: release_region(io, 3); } @@ -1482,8 +1461,7 @@ static void __devinit winbond_check2(int if ((x_devid == devid) && (x_devrev == devrev) && (x_oldid == oldid)) goto out; /* protection against false positives */ - if (decode_winbond(io,key,devid,devrev,oldid)) - return; + decode_winbond(io,key,devid,devrev,oldid); out: release_region(io, 3); } @@ -1522,8 +1500,7 @@ static void __devinit smsc_check(int io, (x_oldid == oldid) && (x_rev == rev)) goto out; /* protection against false positives */ - if (decode_smsc(io,key,oldid,oldrev)) - return; + decode_smsc(io,key,oldid,oldrev); out: release_region(io, 3); } _