[PATCH 05/38] driver-core: fix potential race condition in drivers/base/dd.c

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch fix a potential race condition in the driver_bound() function
in the file driver/base/dd.c.

The broadcast of the BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER notifier should be done
after adding the new device to the driver list. Otherwise notifier
listener will fail if they use functions like usb_find_interface().

The patch is against kernel 2.6.33. Please merge it.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index c89291f..503c262 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ static void driver_bound(struct device *dev)
 	pr_debug("driver: '%s': %s: bound to device '%s'\n", dev_name(dev),
 		 __func__, dev->driver->name);
 
+	klist_add_tail(&dev->p->knode_driver, &dev->driver->p->klist_devices);
+
 	if (dev->bus)
 		blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
 					     BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER, dev);
-
-	klist_add_tail(&dev->p->knode_driver, &dev->driver->p->klist_devices);
 }
 
 static int driver_sysfs_add(struct device *dev)
-- 
1.7.0.3

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