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-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 44a240c4bb65..23e0477edf7d 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
+
+ if (new_min < old_min && new_max > old_max) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
}
cd->next = *cp;
@@ -330,7 +336,7 @@ static struct kobject *cdev_get(struct cdev *p)
if (owner && !try_module_get(owner))
return NULL;
- kobj = kobject_get(&p->kobj);
+ kobj = kobject_get_unless_zero(&p->kobj);
if (!kobj)
module_put(owner);
return kobj;