From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race condition in drivers/base/dd.c
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:15:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267895741.19406.7.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306165736.GA24154@suse.de>
Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 08:57 -0800 schrieb Greg KH:
> 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?
>
No, there is no problem in the stable kernel. There was only a problem
with one of my out of tree driver.
Stefani
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 17:15 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
2010-03-06 17:15 ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
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2010-02-28 21:31 [PATCH] Fix " Stefani Seibold
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