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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] RTC subsystem, class
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:01:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512202101.39498.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051220214511.12bbb69c@inspiron>

Hi,

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:45, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> +int rtc_read_time(struct class_device *class_dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
> +{
> +       int err = -EINVAL;
> +       struct rtc_class_ops *ops = class_get_devdata(class_dev);
> +
> +       if (ops->read_time) {
> +               memset(tm, 0, sizeof(struct rtc_time));
> 

What guarantees that ops is not NULL here? Userspace can keep the
attribute (file) open and issue read after class_device was unregistered
and devdata set to NULL.

-- 
Dmitry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-21  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-20 20:45 [RFC][PATCH 1/6] RTC subsystem, class Alessandro Zummo
2005-12-20 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-20 21:23   ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-12-21  1:50     ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-12-21  9:30       ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-12-20 21:30   ` Russell King
2005-12-21  2:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-12-21  9:50   ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-12-21 19:43     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-21 23:10       ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-12-22 13:35 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-26  2:47   ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-12-26 20:16     ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-27  3:16       ` Alessandro Zummo

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