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 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.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-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
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
@@ -1957,7 +1957,6 @@ static int f71882fg_remove(struct platfo
int i;
struct f71882fg_data *data = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
- platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
if (data->hwmon_dev)
hwmon_device_unregister(data->hwmon_dev);
@@ -1982,6 +1981,7 @@ static int f71882fg_remove(struct platfo
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(f8000_fan_attr); i++)
device_remove_file(&pdev->dev, &f8000_fan_attr[i].dev_attr);
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
kfree(data);
return 0;
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from
[email protected] are
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/hwmon-f71882fg-set-platform-drvdata-to-null-later.patch
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