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

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

Hi David

16.04.2015, 06:52, "David Fries" <david@xxxxxxxxx>:
> It has not been solved.  Evgeniy would like to make use of the sysfs
> device management instead of the current reference counting, however I
> haven't heard any volunteers to do that work.  I posted a quick fix
> patch, it was very easy to crash without this patch, it doesn't
> completely solve the race conditions, and I don't think it can be
> solved in just a slave driver change.

Let's push this patch upstream as a temporal fix until we are ready with the new solution.
Thorsten, does it fix your crash?
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