LEDS: 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 20:31:55 +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>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/leds/led-class.c

index b3c54be..559a408 100644 (file)
@@ -103,13 +103,11 @@ int led_classdev_register(struct device *parent, struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
 {
        int rc;
 
-       led_cdev->dev = device_create(leds_class, parent, 0, "%s",
-                                           led_cdev->name);
+       led_cdev->dev = device_create_drvdata(leds_class, parent, 0, led_cdev,
+                                             "%s", led_cdev->name);
        if (IS_ERR(led_cdev->dev))
                return PTR_ERR(led_cdev->dev);
 
-       dev_set_drvdata(led_cdev->dev, led_cdev);
-
        /* register the attributes */
        rc = device_create_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_brightness);
        if (rc)