On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > When reviewing another thingm patch Benjamin Tissoires pointed out > the following: "The problem here is that hid_hw_start() is called > before thingm_version() which allows user space to briefly introduce > races between thingm_version() and any hidraw requests. > The mutex will not help here as it is initialized after hid_hw_start() > and only used for protecting the concurrent access of the rgb." > > Avoid this possible issue by calling hid_hw_start() later in the > probe function. > > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: > - make commit message more verbose Applied to for-4.6/thingm. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-leds" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
