This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hwmon/f71882fg: Set platform drvdata to NULL later
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hwmon-f71882fg-set-platform-drvdata-to-null-later.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d9ebaa45472c92704f4814682eec21455edcfa1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:50:33 +0100
Subject: hwmon/f71882fg: Set platform drvdata to NULL later
From: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
commit d9ebaa45472c92704f4814682eec21455edcfa1f upstream.
This avoids a possible race leading to trying to dereference NULL.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c
@@ -2110,7 +2110,6 @@ static int f71882fg_remove(struct platfo
int nr_fans = (data->type == f71882fg) ? 4 : 3;
u8 start_reg = f71882fg_read8(data, F71882FG_REG_START);
- platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
if (data->hwmon_dev)
hwmon_device_unregister(data->hwmon_dev);
@@ -2177,6 +2176,7 @@ static int f71882fg_remove(struct platfo
}
}
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
kfree(data);
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/hwmon-f71882fg-set-platform-drvdata-to-null-later.patch
_______________________________________________
stable mailing list
[email protected]
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
