[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ALSA: opti9xx: Fix conflicting driver object name" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: opti9xx: Fix conflicting driver object name

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4190a7f44dfabe1c8626bf7d12beb022f8578e1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:03:01 +0200
Subject: ALSA: opti9xx: Fix conflicting driver object name

commit fb615499f0ad28ed74201c1cdfddf9e64e205424 upstream.

The recent commit to delay the release of kobject triggered NULL
dereferences of opti9xx drivers.  The cause is that all
snd-opti92x-ad1848, snd-opti92x-cs4231 and snd-opti93x drivers
register the PnP card driver with the very same name, and also
snd-opti92x-ad1848 and -cs4231 drivers register the ISA driver with
the same name, too.  When these drivers are built in, quick
"register-release-and-re-register" actions occur, and this results in
Oops because of the same name is assigned to the kobject.

The fix is simply to assign individual names.  As a bonus, by using
KBUILD_MODNAME, the patch reduces more lines than it adds.

The fix is based on the suggestion by Russell King.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c b/sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c
index b41ed86..e427dbf 100644
--- a/sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c
+++ b/sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c
@@ -173,11 +173,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pnp_card, snd_opti9xx_pnpids);

 #endif	/* CONFIG_PNP */

-#ifdef OPTi93X
-#define DEV_NAME "opti93x"
-#else
-#define DEV_NAME "opti92x"
-#endif
+#define DEV_NAME KBUILD_MODNAME

 static char * snd_opti9xx_names[] = {
 	"unknown",
@@ -1168,7 +1164,7 @@ static int snd_opti9xx_pnp_resume(struct pnp_card_link *pcard)

 static struct pnp_card_driver opti9xx_pnpc_driver = {
 	.flags		= PNP_DRIVER_RES_DISABLE,
-	.name		= "opti9xx",
+	.name		= DEV_NAME,
 	.id_table	= snd_opti9xx_pnpids,
 	.probe		= snd_opti9xx_pnp_probe,
 	.remove		= snd_opti9xx_pnp_remove,
--
1.8.1.2