[PATCH 2.6] 1/3 Serio: claim serio early

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sat Aug 23 2003 - 01:38:24 EST


Hi,

I think that serio_dev in serio_open should claim serio before calling
"open" function as it has already been decided that (in case of success)
this serio belongs to that serio_dev. Otherwise it might try to find an
owner on its own, like i8042 module that calls serio_interrupt which in
turn will do serio_rescan. From that point on 2 instances may start
fighting over the same serio.

What you think about the patch below?

Dmitry

diff -urN --exclude-from=/usr/src/exclude 2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c linux-2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c
--- 2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2003-08-22 21:53:29.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.0-test4/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2003-08-22 22:58:37.000000000 -0500
@@ -204,9 +204,11 @@
/* called from serio_dev->connect/disconnect methods under serio_sem */
int serio_open(struct serio *serio, struct serio_dev *dev)
{
- if (serio->open(serio))
- return -1;
serio->dev = dev;
+ if (serio->open(serio)) {
+ serio->dev = NULL;
+ return -1;
+ }
return 0;
}


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