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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6] 1/3 Serio: claim serio early
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:31:50AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that serio_dev in serio_open should claim serio before calling
> "open" function as it has already been decided that (in case of success)
> this serio belongs to that serio_dev. Otherwise it might try to find an
> owner on its own, like i8042 module that calls serio_interrupt which in
> turn will do serio_rescan. From that point on 2 instances may start
> fighting over the same serio.
>
> What you think about the patch below?

Agreed.

>
> Dmitry
>
> diff -urN --exclude-from=/usr/src/exclude 2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c linux-2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c
> --- 2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2003-08-22 21:53:29.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2003-08-22 22:58:37.000000000 -0500
> @@ -204,9 +204,11 @@
> /* called from serio_dev->connect/disconnect methods under serio_sem */
> int serio_open(struct serio *serio, struct serio_dev *dev)
> {
> - if (serio->open(serio))
> - return -1;
> serio->dev = dev;
> + if (serio->open(serio)) {
> + serio->dev = NULL;
> + return -1;
> + }
> return 0;
> }
>
>
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