lightnvm: prevent gennvm module unload on use

After the gennvm module has been initialized. It might be attached to
one or several devices. In that case, the module is in use. Make sure
that it can not be unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c b/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
index 52b513a6594617c9d7652bc029f8368290a55c52..f434e89e1c7a1d824d0ac491c80234eb955e976f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ static int gennvm_register(struct nvm_dev *dev)
        struct gen_nvm *gn;
        int ret;
 
+       if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
+               return -ENODEV;
+
        gn = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gen_nvm), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!gn)
                return -ENOMEM;
@@ -242,12 +245,14 @@ static int gennvm_register(struct nvm_dev *dev)
        return 1;
 err:
        gennvm_free(dev);
+       module_put(THIS_MODULE);
        return ret;
 }
 
 static void gennvm_unregister(struct nvm_dev *dev)
 {
        gennvm_free(dev);
+       module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 }
 
 static struct nvm_block *gennvm_get_blk(struct nvm_dev *dev,