From foo@baz Tue Apr 9 12:12:43 2002 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:55:12 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: USB: Core: 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(). Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c @@ -818,12 +818,12 @@ static int usb_register_bus(struct usb_b set_bit (busnum, busmap.busmap); bus->busnum = busnum; - bus->dev = device_create(usb_host_class, bus->controller, MKDEV(0, 0), - "usb_host%d", busnum); + bus->dev = device_create_drvdata(usb_host_class, bus->controller, + MKDEV(0, 0), bus, + "usb_host%d", busnum); result = PTR_ERR(bus->dev); if (IS_ERR(bus->dev)) goto error_create_class_dev; - dev_set_drvdata(bus->dev, bus); /* Add it to the local list of buses */ list_add (&bus->bus_list, &usb_bus_list);