For two reasons:
- The driver core clears this already for us after we're unloaded in
__device_release_driver().
- It's way too late, the drm_device ->release callback might massively
outlive the underlying physical device, since a drm_device can be
kept alive by open drm_file or well really anything else userspace
is still hanging onto. So if we clear this ourselves, we should
clear it in the pci ->remove callback, not in the drm_device
->release callback.
Looking at git history this was fixed in the driver core with
commit
0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d
Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Date: Wed May 23 00:09:34 2012 +0200
device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound
v2: Cite the core fix in the commit message (Chris).
v3: Fix commit message and unused variable warning (Jani).
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200323144950.3018436-3-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
static void i915_driver_destroy(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
{
- struct pci_dev *pdev = i915->drm.pdev;
-
drm_dev_fini(&i915->drm);
kfree(i915);
-
- /* And make sure we never chase our dangling pointer from pci_dev */
- pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
}
/**