Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:57:36 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix race condition in drivers/base/dd.c |
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:50:14PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote: > This patch fix a potential race condition in the driver_bound() function > in the file driver/base/dd.c. > > The broadcast of the BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER notifier should be done > after adding the new device to the driver list. Otherwise notifier > listener will fail if they use functions like usb_find_interface(). > > The patch is against kernel 2.6.33. Please merge it.
Looks good, are there bugs caused by this problem today that require this patch to be backported to the -stable kernels?
thanks,
greg k-h
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