Commit e13889ba authored Jul 25, 2011 by Al Viro

fix devtmpfs race



After we's done complete(&req->done), there's nothing to prevent the
scope containing *req from being gone and *req overwritten by any
kind of junk.  So we must read req->next before that...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parent eda65cc6

drivers/base/devtmpfs.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -406,9 +406,10 @@ static int devtmpfsd(void *p)
		requests = NULL;
		spin_unlock(&req_lock);
		while (req) {
		struct req *next = req->next;
		req->err = handle(req->name, req->mode, req->dev);
		complete(&req->done);
		req = req->next;
		req = next;
		}
		spin_lock(&req_lock);
		}

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