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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-15 13:44:08 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-20 13:31:53 -0700
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mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation
There is a race from when a device is created with device_create() and then the drvdata is set with a call to dev_set_drvdata() in which a sysfs file could be open, yet the drvdata will be NULL, causing all sorts of bad things to happen. This patch fixes the problem by using the new function, device_create_vargs(). Many thanks to Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> for reporting the bug, and testing patches out. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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