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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-16 20:55:12 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-20 16:31:56 -0400
commit24b42566c3fcbb5a9011d1446783d0f5844ccd45 (patch)
tree0e1de28631d02446580adf5fbb98feb981b20b5a /drivers/scsi/st.c
parentc013d040b70bc2bff5465917ebb255a70b650396 (diff)
SCSI: 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(). It fixes the problem in all of the scsi drivers that need it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/st.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/st.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c
index e8db66ad0bde..6e5a5bb31311 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c
@@ -4424,17 +4424,19 @@ static int do_create_class_files(struct scsi_tape *STp, int dev_num, int mode)
4424 snprintf(name, 10, "%s%s%s", rew ? "n" : "", 4424 snprintf(name, 10, "%s%s%s", rew ? "n" : "",
4425 STp->disk->disk_name, st_formats[i]); 4425 STp->disk->disk_name, st_formats[i]);
4426 st_class_member = 4426 st_class_member =
4427 device_create(st_sysfs_class, &STp->device->sdev_gendev, 4427 device_create_drvdata(st_sysfs_class,
4428 MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR, 4428 &STp->device->sdev_gendev,
4429 TAPE_MINOR(dev_num, mode, rew)), 4429 MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR,
4430 "%s", name); 4430 TAPE_MINOR(dev_num,
4431 mode, rew)),
4432 &STp->modes[mode],
4433 "%s", name);
4431 if (IS_ERR(st_class_member)) { 4434 if (IS_ERR(st_class_member)) {
4432 printk(KERN_WARNING "st%d: device_create failed\n", 4435 printk(KERN_WARNING "st%d: device_create failed\n",
4433 dev_num); 4436 dev_num);
4434 error = PTR_ERR(st_class_member); 4437 error = PTR_ERR(st_class_member);
4435 goto out; 4438 goto out;
4436 } 4439 }
4437 dev_set_drvdata(st_class_member, &STp->modes[mode]);
4438 4440
4439 error = device_create_file(st_class_member, 4441 error = device_create_file(st_class_member,
4440 &dev_attr_defined); 4442 &dev_attr_defined);