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From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:33:05 +0200
Subject: backlight: lcd: Fix race condition during register
From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
[ Upstream commit cc21942bce652d1a92dae85b785378256e1df1f7 ]
Once device_register is called for a device its attributes might be
accessed. As the callbacks of a lcd device's attributes make use of the
lcd_ops, the respective member must be setup before calling
device_register.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
@@ -226,6 +226,8 @@ struct lcd_device *lcd_device_register(c
dev_set_name(&new_ld->dev, "%s", name);
dev_set_drvdata(&new_ld->dev, devdata);
+ new_ld->ops = ops;
+
rc = device_register(&new_ld->dev);
if (rc) {
put_device(&new_ld->dev);
@@ -238,8 +240,6 @@ struct lcd_device *lcd_device_register(c
return ERR_PTR(rc);
}
- new_ld->ops = ops;
-
return new_ld;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(lcd_device_register);