3.2.93-rc1 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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context, indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/rc/ir-raw.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/rc/ir-raw.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/ir-raw.c @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ void ir_raw_event_handle(struct rc_dev * { unsigned long flags; - if (!dev->raw) + if (!dev->raw || !dev->raw->thread) return; spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->raw->lock, flags); @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev { int rc; struct ir_raw_handler *handler; + struct task_struct *thread; if (!dev) return -EINVAL; @@ -269,14 +270,16 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev goto out; spin_lock_init(&dev->raw->lock); - dev->raw->thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw, - "rc%ld", dev->devno); + thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw, "rc%ld", + dev->devno); - 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); list_add_tail(&dev->raw->list, &ir_raw_client_list); list_for_each_entry(handler, &ir_raw_handler_list, list)