From: Naveen Kumar Parna <[email protected]>
Without ".owner = THIS_MODULE" it is possible to crash the kernel
by unloading the mbcs module while someone works with the file.
Fix this by initializing the ‘struct file_operations' ->owner with
THIS_MODULE.
Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/mbcs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/mbcs.c b/drivers/char/mbcs.c
index 8c9216a0f62e..0a31b60bee7b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mbcs.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mbcs.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(soft_list);
* file operations
*/
static const struct file_operations mbcs_ops = {
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
.open = mbcs_open,
.llseek = mbcs_sram_llseek,
.read = mbcs_sram_read,
--
2.17.1