Commit 6d0ca4a2 authored by Krzysztof Kozlowski's avatar Krzysztof Kozlowski Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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nvmem: layouts: store owner from modules with nvmem_layout_driver_register()



Modules registering driver with nvmem_layout_driver_register() might
forget to set .owner field.  The field is used by some of other kernel
parts for reference counting (try_module_get()), so it is expected that
drivers will set it.

Solve the problem by moving this task away from the drivers to the core
code, just like we did for platform_driver in
commit 9447057e ("platform_device: use a macro instead of
platform_driver_register").

Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Walle <mwalle@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSrinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240430084921.33387-2-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 73df3d6f
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