ide: fix race in device_create
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sat, 17 May 2008 00:55:12 +0000 (17:55 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 20 May 2008 20:31:54 +0000 (13:31 -0700)
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>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/ide/ide-probe.c

index 34b0d4f26b5885bb22a3ea88a3898b4900e5678d..655ec7ef568afbf2930ec27b3e2217a1eadc488a 100644 (file)
@@ -648,13 +648,12 @@ static int ide_register_port(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
 
        get_device(&hwif->gendev);
 
-       hwif->portdev = device_create(ide_port_class, &hwif->gendev,
-                                     MKDEV(0, 0), hwif->name);
+       hwif->portdev = device_create_drvdata(ide_port_class, &hwif->gendev,
+                                             MKDEV(0, 0), hwif, hwif->name);
        if (IS_ERR(hwif->portdev)) {
                ret = PTR_ERR(hwif->portdev);
                device_unregister(&hwif->gendev);
        }
-       dev_set_drvdata(hwif->portdev, hwif);
 out:
        return ret;
 }