From 04a6217df28e3004ba4e76eb0a356a30f72c564f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:57:19 +0200 Subject: hwmon: Fix a potential race condition on unload Fix a potential race condition when some hardware monitoring platform drivers are being unloaded. I believe that the driver data pointer shouldn't be cleared before all the sysfs files are removed, otherwise a sysfs callback might attempt to dereference a NULL pointer. I'm not sure exactly what the driver core protects drivers against, so let's play it safe. While we're here, clear the driver data pointer when probe fails, so as to not leave an invalid pointer behind us. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman --- drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c') diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c b/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c index 320d814..c604972 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ exit_remove_files: sysfs_remove_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &vt8231_group); exit_free: + platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); kfree(data); exit_release: -- cgit v1.1