On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:06:29PM +0100, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
> From: Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]>
> 
> This fixes a potential race condition where the ci13xxx_imx glue code
> could be fast enough to call one of the usbmisc_ops before he got a
> valid value on the static usbmisc pointer. To fix that we first set
> usbmisc, then call usbmisc_set_ops().

usbmisc is subsys_initcall, and cil13xxx_imx is module_init. Any
potential situation that the ci13xxx_imx's probe is ran before the
usbmisc's probe is completed? Besides, there is usbmisc_ops value
check at the beginning of cil13xxx_imx's probe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Grzeschik <[email protected]>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> * split previous patch into two seperate.
> 
>  drivers/usb/chipidea/usbmisc_imx.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/usbmisc_imx.c 
> b/drivers/usb/chipidea/usbmisc_imx.c
> index 552c63f..9145e04 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/usbmisc_imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/usbmisc_imx.c
> @@ -116,14 +116,14 @@ static int __devinit usbmisc_imx_probe(struct 
> platform_device *pdev)
>               return ret;
>       }
>  
> +     usbmisc = data;
>       ret = usbmisc_set_ops(&imx6q_usbmisc_ops);
>       if (ret) {
> +             usbmisc = NULL;
>               clk_disable_unprepare(data->clk);
>               return ret;
>       }
>  
> -     usbmisc = data;
> -
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
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Best Regards,
Peter Chen

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