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char: misc: Does not request module for miscdevice with dynamic minor
authorZijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:34:17 +0000 (23:34 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 11:45:10 +0000 (12:45 +0100)
commit87ac021c847d90ba77afe4a6f105b494acf6f203
tree72c214a2e3d600efa81097c647825e26e6a8899f
parenta3f918b791cd8dd143845376ae0d58c32506b714
char: misc: Does not request module for miscdevice with dynamic minor

[ Upstream commit 1ba0fb42aa6a5f072b1b8c0b0520b32ad4ef4b45 ]

misc_open() may request module for miscdevice with dynamic minor, which
is meaningless since:

- The dynamic minor allocated is unknown in advance without registering
  miscdevice firstly.
- Macro MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV() is not applicable for dynamic minor.

Fix by only requesting module for miscdevice with fixed minor.

Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-rfc_miscdev-v6-6-2ed949665bde@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/char/misc.c