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V4L/DVB (8544): gspca: probe/open race.
authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:01:59 +0000 (14:01 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:07:57 +0000 (18:07 -0300)
commitee56a4d3e39c2baafd06aaf26d975a7c9b05e3a2
treec33575d547a0613eeaaa5c289956cf79925d53fbtree | snapshot
parentee281b856d4e4921da24387ab116bb0855c2efaacommit | diff
V4L/DVB (8544): gspca: probe/open race.

The device is flagged present after it is registered. During that window calls
to open() that should work fail with -ENODEV. Reversing the order fixes
the race.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.c diff | blob | history
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