Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 03/13] fbdev: fix race in device_create | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:50 -0700 |
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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: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c b/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c index 3547717..6ef800b 100644 --- a/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <linux/ctype.h> #include <linux/idr.h> #include <linux/err.h> +#include <linux/kdev_t.h> static ssize_t display_show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) @@ -152,10 +153,13 @@ struct display_device *display_device_register(struct display_driver *driver, mutex_unlock(&allocated_dsp_lock); if (!ret) { - new_dev->dev = device_create(display_class, parent, 0, - "display%d", new_dev->idx); + new_dev->dev = device_create_drvdata(display_class, + parent, + MKDEV(0,0), + new_dev, + "display%d", + new_dev->idx); if (!IS_ERR(new_dev->dev)) { - dev_set_drvdata(new_dev->dev, new_dev); new_dev->parent = parent; new_dev->driver = driver; mutex_init(&new_dev->lock); -- 1.5.5.1
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