From: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> commit 896111dc4bcf887b835b3ef54f48b450d4692a1d upstream. There is a race condition where if the /sys/class/rc0/uevent file is read before rc_dev->registered is set to true, -ENODEV will be returned. Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1901089 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: a2e2d73fa281 ("media: rc: do not access device via sysfs after rc_unregister_device()") Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c @@ -1892,6 +1892,8 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *de goto out_raw; } + dev->registered = true; + rc = device_add(&dev->dev); if (rc) goto out_rx_free; @@ -1901,8 +1903,6 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *de dev->device_name ?: "Unspecified device", path ?: "N/A"); kfree(path); - dev->registered = true; - /* * once the the input device is registered in rc_setup_rx_device, * userspace can open the input device and rc_open() will be called
