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authorIosif Harutyunov <iharutyunov@SonicWALL.com>2016-07-22 23:22:42 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-20 18:09:26 +0200
commit4056337b1e81a1b137aa562133dc5430cd2fd19e (patch)
tree2f8d9256d704a22a358779cb55764cff3c863525
parent79d6bc128c0b3370acbfedf7da44e64678c25c27 (diff)
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ubi: Fix race condition between ubi device creation and udev
commit 714fb87e8bc05ff78255afc0dca981e8c5242785 upstream. Install the UBI device object before we arm sysfs. Otherwise udev tries to read sysfs attributes before UBI is ready and udev rules will not match. Signed-off-by: Iosif Harutyunov <iharutyunov@sonicwall.com> [rw: massaged commit message] Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index f3798cc21fe5..27de0463226e 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -987,6 +987,9 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num,
goto out_detach;
}
+ /* Make device "available" before it becomes accessible via sysfs */
+ ubi_devices[ubi_num] = ubi;
+
err = uif_init(ubi, &ref);
if (err)
goto out_detach;
@@ -1031,7 +1034,6 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num,
wake_up_process(ubi->bgt_thread);
spin_unlock(&ubi->wl_lock);
- ubi_devices[ubi_num] = ubi;
ubi_notify_all(ubi, UBI_VOLUME_ADDED, NULL);
return ubi_num;
@@ -1042,6 +1044,7 @@ out_uif:
ubi_assert(ref);
uif_close(ubi);
out_detach:
+ ubi_devices[ubi_num] = NULL;
ubi_wl_close(ubi);
ubi_free_internal_volumes(ubi);
vfree(ubi->vtbl);