linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Avoid null-pointer access in w1/slaves/w1

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Message-Id: <694991429185435@web19g.yandex.ru>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:57:15 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	David Fries <david@...es.net>,
	Jonathan ALIBERT <jonathan.alibert@...il.com>
Cc:	Thorsten Bschorr <thorsten@...horr.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid null-pointer access in w1/slaves/w1_therm

Hi David

16.04.2015, 06:52, "David Fries" <david@...es.net>:
> It has not been solved.  Evgeniy would like to make use of the sysfs
> device management instead of the current reference counting, however I
> haven't heard any volunteers to do that work.  I posted a quick fix
> patch, it was very easy to crash without this patch, it doesn't
> completely solve the race conditions, and I don't think it can be
> solved in just a slave driver change.

Let's push this patch upstream as a temporal fix until we are ready with the new solution.
Thorsten, does it fix your crash?
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