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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race condition in drivers/base/dd.c
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:57:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100306165736.GA24154@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267894214.18869.1.camel@wall-e>

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:50:14PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> This patch fix a potential race condition in the driver_bound() function
> in the file driver/base/dd.c. 
> 
> The broadcast of the BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER notifier should be done
> after adding the new device to the driver list. Otherwise notifier
> listener will fail if they use functions like usb_find_interface().
> 
> The patch is against kernel 2.6.33. Please merge it.

Looks good, are there bugs caused by this problem today that require
this patch to be backported to the -stable kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-06 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-06 16:50 [PATCH] fix race condition in drivers/base/dd.c Stefani Seibold
2010-03-06 16:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-06 17:15   ` Stefani Seibold
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-28 21:31 [PATCH] Fix " Stefani Seibold

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