Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 08/13] UIO: fix race in device_create | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:55 -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: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- drivers/uio/uio.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c index 55cc7b8..0a12e90 100644 --- a/drivers/uio/uio.c +++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c @@ -649,15 +649,14 @@ int __uio_register_device(struct module *owner, if (ret) goto err_get_minor; - idev->dev = device_create(uio_class->class, parent, - MKDEV(uio_major, idev->minor), - "uio%d", idev->minor); + idev->dev = device_create_drvdata(uio_class->class, parent, + MKDEV(uio_major, idev->minor), idev, + "uio%d", idev->minor); if (IS_ERR(idev->dev)) { printk(KERN_ERR "UIO: device register failed\n"); ret = PTR_ERR(idev->dev); goto err_device_create; } - dev_set_drvdata(idev->dev, idev); ret = uio_dev_add_attributes(idev); if (ret) -- 1.5.5.1
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