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    Subject[PATCH 09/12] remove race between use and initialization of locks
    This change was originally submitted by Alexey Dobriyan in an email
    with ...

    Message-ID: <20070325190221.GA5308@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

    and the comment,

    Some drivers do register_chrdev() before lock or semaphore used in
    corresponding file_operations is initialized.

    Andrew Morton commented that these locks should be initialized at
    compile time, but Alexey Debriyan pointed out that the Documentation
    tells us to use dynamic initialization whenever possible, and then the
    discussion petered out.

    http://preview.tinyurl.com/2pxq6p

    I believe we made these locks dynamic because of the notice in
    Documentation/spinlocks.txt, which says that static initializers are
    deprecated:

    UPDATE March 21 2005 Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>

    Macros SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED are deprecated and will be
    removed soon. So for any new code dynamic initialization should be used:
    ...

    In any case, the patch below makes the code correct and in keeping
    with the existing documentation. If the existing docs are wrong, I'd
    be happy to follow up with a patch that corrects them and makes these
    aoechr.c locks static.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
    ---
    drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 4 ++--
    1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c
    index 10b38a7..2b4f873 100644
    --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c
    +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c
    @@ -256,13 +256,13 @@ aoechr_init(void)
    {
    int n, i;

    + sema_init(&emsgs_sema, 0);
    + spin_lock_init(&emsgs_lock);
    n = register_chrdev(AOE_MAJOR, "aoechr", &aoe_fops);
    if (n < 0) {
    printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: can't register char device\n");
    return n;
    }
    - sema_init(&emsgs_sema, 0);
    - spin_lock_init(&emsgs_lock);
    aoe_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "aoe");
    if (IS_ERR(aoe_class)) {
    unregister_chrdev(AOE_MAJOR, "aoechr");
    --
    1.5.2.1
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