On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 03:41:04PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote: > Hi All, > > We are facing one issue where one driver (p1) is trying to register its > device from driver probe > and from another path (p2) dev_set_name(new name) done from driver probe of > the added device whose > new name length can be more than earlier done in (p1 path) which could > result in redzone overwritten issue. I do not understand, what specific driver is doing this so that we can see an example of this problem? > Can we get your suggestion here ? is this case of a race here ? > > p1 p2 > > device_register() > kobject_get_path() > => get_kobj_path_length > (length is calculated from this path) > > dev_set_name() > > => fill_kobj_path > (path is copied here) > I can not understand this example, any specific code you can point me at? thanks, greg k-h
