From foo@baz Tue Apr 9 12:12:43 2002 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:55:12 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: SCSI: fix race in device_create From: Greg Kroah-Hartman 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 Cc: Doug Gilbert Cc: James E.J. Bottomley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/ch.c | 7 +++---- drivers/scsi/osst.c | 3 +-- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 11 ++++++----- drivers/scsi/st.c | 12 +++++++----- 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/ch.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ch.c @@ -910,9 +910,9 @@ static int ch_probe(struct device *dev) ch->minor = minor; sprintf(ch->name,"ch%d",ch->minor); - class_dev = device_create(ch_sysfs_class, dev, - MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR,ch->minor), - "s%s", ch->name); + class_dev = device_create_drvdata(ch_sysfs_class, dev, + MKDEV(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR, ch->minor), + ch, "s%s", ch->name); if (IS_ERR(class_dev)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "ch%d: device_create failed\n", ch->minor); @@ -926,7 +926,6 @@ static int ch_probe(struct device *dev) if (init) ch_init_elem(ch); - dev_set_drvdata(dev, ch); sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, sd, "Attached scsi changer %s\n", ch->name); return 0; --- a/drivers/scsi/osst.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/osst.c @@ -5695,13 +5695,12 @@ static int osst_sysfs_add(dev_t dev, str struct device *osst_member; int err; - osst_member = device_create(osst_sysfs_class, device, dev, "%s", name); + osst_member = device_create_drvdata(osst_sysfs_class, device, dev, STp, "%s", name); if (IS_ERR(osst_member)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "osst :W: Unable to add sysfs class member %s\n", name); return PTR_ERR(osst_member); } - dev_set_drvdata(osst_member, STp); err = device_create_file(osst_member, &dev_attr_ADR_rev); if (err) goto err_out; --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -1441,17 +1441,18 @@ sg_add(struct device *cl_dev, struct cla if (sg_sysfs_valid) { struct device *sg_class_member; - sg_class_member = device_create(sg_sysfs_class, cl_dev->parent, - MKDEV(SCSI_GENERIC_MAJOR, - sdp->index), - "%s", disk->disk_name); + sg_class_member = device_create_drvdata(sg_sysfs_class, + cl_dev->parent, + MKDEV(SCSI_GENERIC_MAJOR, + sdp->index), + sdp, + "%s", disk->disk_name); if (IS_ERR(sg_class_member)) { printk(KERN_ERR "sg_add: " "device_create failed\n"); error = PTR_ERR(sg_class_member); goto cdev_add_err; } - dev_set_drvdata(sg_class_member, sdp); error = sysfs_create_link(&scsidp->sdev_gendev.kobj, &sg_class_member->kobj, "generic"); if (error) --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c @@ -4424,17 +4424,19 @@ static int do_create_class_files(struct snprintf(name, 10, "%s%s%s", rew ? "n" : "", STp->disk->disk_name, st_formats[i]); st_class_member = - device_create(st_sysfs_class, &STp->device->sdev_gendev, - MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR, - TAPE_MINOR(dev_num, mode, rew)), - "%s", name); + device_create_drvdata(st_sysfs_class, + &STp->device->sdev_gendev, + MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR, + TAPE_MINOR(dev_num, + mode, rew)), + &STp->modes[mode], + "%s", name); if (IS_ERR(st_class_member)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "st%d: device_create failed\n", dev_num); error = PTR_ERR(st_class_member); goto out; } - dev_set_drvdata(st_class_member, &STp->modes[mode]); error = device_create_file(st_class_member, &dev_attr_defined);