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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2010-08-11 23:04:27 -0600 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2010-08-11 23:04:31 +0930 |
| commit | d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a342999c119a5ee6395966cee91ddf5186f5665 /drivers/scsi | |
| parent | dca41306395eab37e222ff9e72765e692fcc7251 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73.tar.gz lwn-d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73.zip | |
param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
Since the writing to sysfs can free the old one, we need to block that
when we access the charp variables.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c index 915a29d6c7ad..ca04cc9d332f 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c @@ -788,6 +788,7 @@ bfad_drv_init(struct bfad_s *bfad) memset(&driver_info, 0, sizeof(driver_info)); strncpy(driver_info.version, BFAD_DRIVER_VERSION, sizeof(driver_info.version) - 1); + __kernel_param_lock(); if (host_name) strncpy(driver_info.host_machine_name, host_name, sizeof(driver_info.host_machine_name) - 1); @@ -797,6 +798,7 @@ bfad_drv_init(struct bfad_s *bfad) if (os_patch) strncpy(driver_info.host_os_patch, os_patch, sizeof(driver_info.host_os_patch) - 1); + __kernel_param_unlock(); strncpy(driver_info.os_device_name, bfad->pci_name, sizeof(driver_info.os_device_name - 1)); |