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authorIosif Harutyunov <iharutyunov@SonicWALL.com>2016-07-22 23:22:42 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-20 11:53:22 +0200
commit6117840dec60344167038f9511c3770d4c096eaa (patch)
tree431a0a7e5b0fcbce5e9224d0e1a9a7a0db04e2af
parent83770c0e1822e505bb71d8c1e118feb92eacf8a0 (diff)
ubi: Fix race condition between ubi device creation and udev
commit 714fb87e8bc05ff78255afc0dca981e8c5242785 upstream. Install the UBI device object before we arm sysfs. Otherwise udev tries to read sysfs attributes before UBI is ready and udev rules will not match. Signed-off-by: Iosif Harutyunov <iharutyunov@sonicwall.com> [rw: massaged commit message] Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index 57deae961429..cfcb54369ce7 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -999,6 +999,9 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num,
goto out_detach;
}
+ /* Make device "available" before it becomes accessible via sysfs */
+ ubi_devices[ubi_num] = ubi;
+
err = uif_init(ubi, &ref);
if (err)
goto out_detach;
@@ -1043,7 +1046,6 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num,
wake_up_process(ubi->bgt_thread);
spin_unlock(&ubi->wl_lock);
- ubi_devices[ubi_num] = ubi;
ubi_notify_all(ubi, UBI_VOLUME_ADDED, NULL);
return ubi_num;
@@ -1054,6 +1056,7 @@ out_uif:
ubi_assert(ref);
uif_close(ubi);
out_detach:
+ ubi_devices[ubi_num] = NULL;
ubi_wl_close(ubi);
ubi_free_internal_volumes(ubi);
vfree(ubi->vtbl);