From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:55:12 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ide: fix race in device_create X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc4~94^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=716ad8750a3ffe6b458d52da2d1c01cbf3e2f60d;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git ide: 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 Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c index 34b0d4f26b5..655ec7ef568 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c @@ -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; }