From 8b485877e0b9eb23c3579f50cca165f75442c6cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:44:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fbdev: fix race in device_create 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 Cc: James Simmons Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c b/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c index 35477177bef..6ef800bdf48 100644 --- a/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/video/display/display-sysfs.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include 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); -- 2.20.1