Re: get_device in device_create_file

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 16:25, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi, Greg:
> 
> This code makes no sense to me:
> 
> > int device_create_file(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr)
> > {
> > 	int error = 0;
> > 	if (get_device(dev)) {
> > 		error = sysfs_create_file(&dev->kobj, &attr->attr);
> > 		put_device(dev);
> > 	}
> > 	return error;
> > }
> 
> If the struct device *dev, and its presumably enclosing structure,
> can be freed by a different CPU (or pre-empt), then get_device
> does not protect it. It can be freed before get_device is reached.

*nod*

> Buf it not, and the caller has a reference, then the call to
> get_device is redundant.
>

Yes it is. There are few of redundant gets and puts sprinkled around
in the driver core, but the last time I mentioned that Greg was not
quite ready to get rid of them ;)
 

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Dmitry