[34-longterm 166/247] hwmon/f71882fg: Set platform drvdata to NULL later

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Thu Jun 23 2011 - 13:58:23 EST


From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit d9ebaa45472c92704f4814682eec21455edcfa1f upstream.

This avoids a possible race leading to trying to dereference NULL.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c b/drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c
index a95fa42..03f08b2 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/f71882fg.c
@@ -2031,7 +2031,6 @@ static int f71882fg_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
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);

@@ -2098,6 +2097,7 @@ static int f71882fg_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
}
}

+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
kfree(data);

return 0;
--
1.7.4.4

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