From: Florian Schmaus Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 15:59:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: driver-core: return EINVAL error instead of BUG_ON() X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0dda2bb6242361afd68332bf19bd67cd5981eb26;p=linux.git driver-core: return EINVAL error instead of BUG_ON() I triggerd the BUG_ON() in driver_register() when booting a domU Xen domain. Since there was no contextual information logged, I needed to attach kgdb to determine the culprit (the wmi-bmof driver in my case). The BUG_ON() was added in commit f48f3febb2cb ("driver-core: do not register a driver with bus_type not registered"). Instead of running into a BUG_ON() we print an error message identifying the, likely faulty, driver but continue booting. Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c index ba912558a5108..857c8f1b876e5 100644 --- a/drivers/base/driver.c +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c @@ -148,7 +148,11 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv) int ret; struct device_driver *other; - BUG_ON(!drv->bus->p); + if (!drv->bus->p) { + pr_err("Driver '%s' was unable to register with bus_type '%s' because the bus was not initialized.\n", + drv->name, drv->bus->name); + return -EINVAL; + } if ((drv->bus->probe && drv->probe) || (drv->bus->remove && drv->remove) ||