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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-08-11 23:04:27 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-08-11 23:04:31 +0930
commitd6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73 (patch)
tree7a342999c119a5ee6395966cee91ddf5186f5665 /drivers/video
parentdca41306395eab37e222ff9e72765e692fcc7251 (diff)
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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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 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
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/vt8623fb.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/vt8623fb.c b/drivers/video/vt8623fb.c
index d31dc96..85d76ec 100644
--- a/drivers/video/vt8623fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/vt8623fb.c
@@ -726,7 +726,9 @@ static int __devinit vt8623_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_devi
/* Prepare startup mode */
+ kparam_block_sysfs_write(mode_option);
rc = fb_find_mode(&(info->var), info, mode_option, NULL, 0, NULL, 8);
+ kparam_unblock_sysfs_write(mode_option);
if (! ((rc == 1) || (rc == 2))) {
rc = -EINVAL;
dev_err(info->device, "mode %s not found\n", mode_option);
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