On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:13:26PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Grant Coady noticed that most hardware monitoring drivers are exposed to > a race condition when one writes to the sysfs files they create. While > the read calls properly request a lock on the internal data, write calls > manipulate the internal data without proper locking. This big patch > fixes that by adding locking wherever needed. > > Affected drivers: adm1021, adm1025, asb100, ds1621, fscher, fscpos, > gl518sm, gl520sm, it87, lm63, lm75, lm77, lm78, lm80, lm83, lm87, lm90, > lm92, max1619, pc87360, pcf8591, sis5595, smsc47m1, via686a, w83627hf > and w83781d > > The adm1026, adm1031 and lm85 were already locking on write calls, but > held the lock for code that did not require it, so they have been > modified too. > > The smsc47b397 and w83l785ts drivers were not affected, because they are > read-only. > > The patch should apply just fine on top of your stack, provided that you > applied all previous patches in order (in particular, there is one lm87 > indentation patch which is needed). Applied, thanks. greg k-h
