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Message-Id: <1403638718-11448-1-git-send-email-janne.kanniainen@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:38:37 +0300
From:	Janne Kanniainen <janne.kanniainen@...il.com>
To:	johan@...nel.org
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, bjorn@...k.no, jkosina@...e.cz, cooloney@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	Janne Kanniainen <janne.kanniainen@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] HID: leds: fix race condition in MSI GT683R driver

This will fix race condition noticed by Oliver Neukum. Sysfs files are created
before mutex and work are initialized.

Signed-off-by: Janne Kanniainen <janne.kanniainen@...il.com>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-gt683r.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-gt683r.c b/drivers/hid/hid-gt683r.c
index 077f7a1..073bd80 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-gt683r.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-gt683r.c
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ static int gt683r_led_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 	if (!led)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	mutex_init(&led->lock);
+	INIT_WORK(&led->work, gt683r_led_work);
+
 	led->mode = GT683R_LED_NORMAL;
 	led->hdev = hdev;
 	hid_set_drvdata(hdev, led);
@@ -271,9 +274,6 @@ static int gt683r_led_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	mutex_init(&led->lock);
-	INIT_WORK(&led->work, gt683r_led_work);
-
 	return 0;
 
 fail:
-- 
1.9.2

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