From d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:04:27 -0600 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai Tested-by: Phil Carmody Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Dan Williams Cc: John W. Linville Cc: Jing Huang Cc: James E.J. Bottomley Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: David S. Miller 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 --- drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/scsi') 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)); -- cgit v1.2.3