From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:55:12 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ide: fix race in device_create X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc4~94^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=716ad8750a3ffe6b458d52da2d1c01cbf3e2f60d;p=pandora-kernel.git ide: fix race in device_create 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_drvdata(). Cc: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-diff-tree failed