4.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> commit 963761a0b2e85663ee4a5630f72930885a06598a upstream. A rc device can call ir_raw_event_handle() after rc_allocate_device(), but before rc_register_device() has completed. This is racey because rcdev->raw is set before rcdev->raw->thread has a valid value. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_set_idle) */ void ir_raw_event_handle(struct rc_dev *dev) { - if (!dev->raw) + if (!dev->raw || !dev->raw->thread) return; wake_up_process(dev->raw->thread); @@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev { int rc; struct ir_raw_handler *handler; + struct task_struct *thread; if (!dev) return -EINVAL; @@ -507,13 +508,15 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev * because the event is coming from userspace */ if (dev->driver_type != RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) { - dev->raw->thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw, - "rc%u", dev->minor); + thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw, "rc%u", + dev->minor); - if (IS_ERR(dev->raw->thread)) { - rc = PTR_ERR(dev->raw->thread); + if (IS_ERR(thread)) { + rc = PTR_ERR(thread); goto out; } + + dev->raw->thread = thread; } mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);