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authorNagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>2007-02-02 12:04:56 (GMT)
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-02-03 01:45:41 (GMT)
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downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-017f2e37ae19ccd28e5edd965741fc374194c5dd.tar.xz
[SCSI] sd: udev accessing an uninitialized scsi_disk field results in a crash
sd_probe() calls class_device_add() even before initializing the sdkp->device variable. class_device_add() eventually results in the user mode udev program to be called. udev program can read the the allow_restart attribute of the newly created scsi device. This is resulting in a crash as the show function for allow_restart (i.e sd_show_allow_restart) returns the attribute value by reading the sdkp->device->allow_restart variable. As the sdkp->device is not initialized before calling the user mode hotplug helper, this results in a crash. The patch below solves it by calling class_device_add() only after the necessary fields in the scsi_disk structure are initialized properly. Signed-off-by: Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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