From 896111dc4bcf887b835b3ef54f48b450d4692a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:29:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] media: rc: ensure that uevent can be read directly after rc device register
Git-commit: 896111dc4bcf887b835b3ef54f48b450d4692a1d
Patch-mainline: v5.11-rc6
References: git-fixes
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@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a2e2d73fa281 ("media: rc: do not access device via sysfs after rc_unregister_device()")
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
index 1d811e5ffb55..29d4d01896ff 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
@@ -1928,6 +1928,8 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev)
goto out_raw;
}
+ dev->registered = true;
+
rc = device_add(&dev->dev);
if (rc)
goto out_rx_free;
@@ -1937,8 +1939,6 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev)
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
--
2.26.2