From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:17:32 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] Driver core: fix locking issues with the devices that are attached to classes
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~1081^2~219^2
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d9fd169c9fbdaecdc430431e59bf94ff40b93d3;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] Driver core: fix locking issues with the devices that are attached to classes

Doh, that was foolish...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index d0f84ff787..27c2176895 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -356,6 +356,13 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 	if (parent)
 		klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children);
 
+	if (dev->class) {
+		/* tie the class to the device */
+		down(&dev->class->sem);
+		list_add_tail(&dev->node, &dev->class->devices);
+		up(&dev->class->sem);
+	}
+
 	/* notify platform of device entry */
 	if (platform_notify)
 		platform_notify(dev);
@@ -455,6 +462,9 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev)
 		sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "device");
 		sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, class_name);
 		kfree(class_name);
+		down(&dev->class->sem);
+		list_del_init(&dev->node);
+		up(&dev->class->sem);
 	}
 	device_remove_file(dev, &dev->uevent_attr);
 
@@ -601,11 +611,6 @@ struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
 	if (retval)
 		goto error;
 
-	/* tie the class to the device */
-	down(&class->sem);
-	list_add_tail(&dev->node, &class->devices);
-	up(&class->sem);
-
 	return dev;
 
 error:
@@ -636,9 +641,7 @@ void device_destroy(struct class *class, dev_t devt)
 	}
 	up(&class->sem);
 
-	if (dev) {
-		list_del_init(&dev->node);
+	if (dev)
 		device_unregister(dev);
-	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);