[PATCH] I2C: Fix race condition in it87 driver

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 18:33:41 EST


ChangeSet 1.2345, 2005/03/31 14:31:21-08:00, khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx

[PATCH] I2C: Fix race condition in it87 driver

I noticed a race condition in the it87, affecting the IT8712F chip only.
The VRM value is currently initialized *after* creating the vrm and vid
sysfs files. This leaves a theorical room for reading from these files
and get an invalid value. It's not critical, but let's still fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>


drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff -Nru a/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c 2005-03-31 15:16:31 -08:00
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c 2005-03-31 15:16:31 -08:00
@@ -889,9 +889,9 @@
}

if (data->type == it8712) {
+ data->vrm = i2c_which_vrm();
device_create_file_vrm(new_client);
device_create_file_vid(new_client);
- data->vrm = i2c_which_vrm();
}

return 0;

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