firewire: fix "kobject_add failed for fw* with -EEXIST"

There is a race between shutdown and creation of devices:  fw-core may
attempt to add a device with the same name of an already existing
device.  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9828

Impact of the bug:  Happens rarely (when shutdown of a device coincides
with creation of another), forces the user to unplug and replug the new
device to get it working.

The fix is obvious:  Free the minor number *after* instead of *before*
device_unregister().  This requires to take an additional reference of
the fw_device as long as the IDR tree points to it.

And while we are at it, we fix an additional race condition:
fw_device_op_open() took its reference of the fw_device a little bit too
late, hence was in danger to access an already invalid fw_device.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h b/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h
index 0854fe2bc110..43808c02793e 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ fw_device_is_shutdown(struct fw_device *device)
 }
 
 struct fw_device *fw_device_get(struct fw_device *device);
+struct fw_device *fw_device_get_by_devt(dev_t devt);
 void fw_device_put(struct fw_device *device);
 int fw_device_enable_phys_dma(struct fw_device *device);
 
 void fw_device_cdev_update(struct fw_device *device);
 void fw_device_cdev_remove(struct fw_device *device);
 
-struct fw_device *fw_device_from_devt(dev_t devt);
 extern int fw_cdev_major;
 
 struct fw_unit {