tree 5a312f634b0aec295201a93020ba025d840e5f21
parent 6623415687eaffef49429292ab062bb046ee3311
author Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 1115408313 -0400
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1119305728 -0700

[PATCH] driver core: Fix races in driver_detach()

This patch is intended for your "driver" tree.  It fixes several subtle
races in driver_detach() and device_release_driver() in the driver-model
core.

The major change is to use klist_remove() rather than klist_del() when
taking a device off its driver's list.  There's no other way to guarantee
that the list pointers will be updated before some other driver binds to
the device.  For this to work driver_detach() can't use a klist iterator,
so the loop over the devices must be written out in full.  In addition the
patch protects against the possibility that, when a driver and a device
are unregistered at the same time, one may be unloaded from memory before
the other is finished using it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>