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author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2006-10-22 16:16:27 +0200 |
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committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2006-12-07 21:32:10 +0100 |
commit | b07375b155a0d2ed21a64db68e737da1f19385f7 (patch) | |
tree | 06669d571a153c7692ca9ed3f18c3686613cb231 /drivers/hwmon | |
parent | 7fdfc90945e308dc1be37e3914cd979a535263e9 (diff) | |
download | linux-b07375b155a0d2ed21a64db68e737da1f19385f7.tar.bz2 |
ieee1394: nodemgr: revise semaphore protection of driver core data
- The list "struct class.children" is supposed to be protected by
class.sem, not by class.subsys.rwsem.
- nodemgr_remove_uds() iterated over nodemgr_ud_class.children without
proper protection. This was never observed as a bug since the code
is usually only accessed by knodemgrd. All knodemgrds are currently
globally serialized. But userspace can trigger this code too by
writing to /sys/bus/ieee1394/destroy_node.
- Clean up access to the FireWire bus type's subsys.rwsem: Access it
uniformly via ieee1394_bus_type. Shrink rwsem protected regions
where possible. Expand them where necessary. The latter wasn't a
problem so far because knodemgr is globally serialized.
This should harden the interaction of ieee1394 with sysfs and lay ground
for deserialized operation of multiple knodemgrds and for implementation
of subthreads for parallelized scanning and probing.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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