linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/13] mm: bdi: fix race in bdi

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:49 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 02/13] mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation

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_vargs().

Many thanks to Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com> for reporting the bug,
and testing patches out.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc: Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 mm/backing-dev.c |   12 ++----------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 7c4f9e0..f2e574d 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -172,30 +172,22 @@ postcore_initcall(bdi_class_init);
 int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
 		const char *fmt, ...)
 {
-	char *name;
 	va_list args;
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct device *dev;
 
 	va_start(args, fmt);
-	name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, args);
+	dev = device_create_vargs(bdi_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, fmt, args);
 	va_end(args);
-
-	if (!name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	dev = device_create(bdi_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), name);
 	if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(dev);
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
 	bdi->dev = dev;
-	dev_set_drvdata(bdi->dev, bdi);
-	bdi_debug_register(bdi, name);
+	bdi_debug_register(bdi, dev_name(dev));
 
 exit:
-	kfree(name);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register);
-- 
1.5.5.1

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