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s390: fix race in device_create
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sat, 17 May 2008 00:55:12 +0000 (17:55 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 20 May 2008 20:31:56 +0000 (13:31 -0700)
There is a race from when a device is created with device_create() and
then the drvdata is set with a call to dev_set_drvdata() in which a
sysfs file could be open, yet the drvdata will be NULL, causing all
sorts of bad things to happen.

This patch fixes the problem by using the new function,
device_create_drvdata().

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c

index e8487347e4d4aa33eb7e844e815ad77028b50f16..2c2428cc05d866efe26b9c288331ab6459afdeb0 100644 (file)
@@ -762,10 +762,10 @@ static int vmlogrdr_register_device(struct vmlogrdr_priv_t *priv)
                device_unregister(dev);
                return ret;
        }
-       priv->class_device = device_create(vmlogrdr_class, dev,
-                                          MKDEV(vmlogrdr_major,
-                                                priv->minor_num),
-                                          "%s", dev->bus_id);
+       priv->class_device = device_create_drvdata(vmlogrdr_class, dev,
+                                                  MKDEV(vmlogrdr_major,
+                                                        priv->minor_num),
+                                                  priv, "%s", dev->bus_id);
        if (IS_ERR(priv->class_device)) {
                ret = PTR_ERR(priv->class_device);
                priv->class_device=NULL;
@@ -773,7 +773,6 @@ static int vmlogrdr_register_device(struct vmlogrdr_priv_t *priv)
                device_unregister(dev);
                return ret;
        }
-       dev->driver_data = priv;
        priv->device = dev;
        return 0;
 }