Re: [PATCH] Avoid null-pointer access in w1/slaves/w1_therm

From: Thorsten Bschorr
Date: Mon Mar 09 2015 - 18:47:32 EST


> Here's a different strategy, add a w1_therm family_data specific mutex
> so w1_therm_remove_slave won't return while another thread is in
> w1_slave_show. Thoughts?
>
> I included three patches, the first is the proposed fix, the second
> makes it more reproducible (and since my testing doesn't have external
> power I had to ignore that check), the third is just some debugging
> messages. For testing I'm starting a read from w1_slave then manually
> remove the sensor, which seems to do the trick.

I'll test your patch, but keeping the original sleep-time tm.
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