EDD - set sysfs attr owner field

[Matt Domsch]

Andrew, the patch below from Michael E. Brown properly sets the owner
field of a sysfs attribute.  Without this patch, it is possible to
crash the kernel with a simultaneous insmod/rmmod while reading files
exported by the module.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
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# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
#   2004/04/21 00:13:44-05:00 michael_e_brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
#   fix edd module unload race vs sysfs access
# 
# drivers/firmware/edd.c
#   2004/04/21 00:13:35-05:00 michael_e_brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +1 -1
#   fix edd module unload race vs sysfs access
# 
diff -Nru a/drivers/firmware/edd.c b/drivers/firmware/edd.c
--- a/drivers/firmware/edd.c	Wed Apr 21 00:41:03 2004
+++ b/drivers/firmware/edd.c	Wed Apr 21 00:41:03 2004
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 
 #define EDD_DEVICE_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_test) \
 struct edd_attribute edd_attr_##_name = { 	\
-	.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode },	\
+	.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, .owner = THIS_MODULE },	\
 	.show	= _show,				\
 	.test	= _test,				\
 };

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