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From: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, m@bues.ch, mpm@selenic.com,
	amit.shah@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 REPOST 6/6] hw_random: don't init list element we're about to add to list.
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2014 16:50:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1418028640-4891-7-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1418028640-4891-1-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Another interesting anti-pattern.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index a9286bf..4d13ac5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -489,7 +489,6 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
 			goto out_unlock;
 		}
 	}
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rng->list);
 	list_add_tail(&rng->list, &rng_list);
 
 	if (old_rng && !rng->init) {
-- 
1.9.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-08  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-08  8:50 [PATCH v5 REPOST 0/6] fix hw_random stuck Amos Kong
2014-12-08  8:50 ` [PATCH v5 REPOST 1/6] hw_random: place mutex around read functions and buffers Amos Kong
2017-09-25 22:00   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-09-26  6:36     ` Pankaj Gupta
2017-09-26 16:52       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-09-27  6:35         ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-12-08  8:50 ` [PATCH v5 REPOST 2/6] hw_random: move some code out mutex_lock for avoiding underlying deadlock Amos Kong
2014-12-08  8:50 ` [PATCH v5 REPOST 3/6] hw_random: use reference counts on each struct hwrng Amos Kong
2014-12-08  8:50 ` [PATCH v5 REPOST 4/6] hw_random: fix unregister race Amos Kong
2014-12-08  8:50 ` [PATCH v5 REPOST 5/6] hw_random: don't double-check old_rng Amos Kong
2014-12-08  8:50 ` Amos Kong [this message]
2014-12-22 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 REPOST 0/6] fix hw_random stuck Herbert Xu

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