There is a race from when a device is created with device_create() and
then the drvdata is set with a call to dev_set_drvdata() in which a
sysfs file could be open, yet the drvdata will be NULL, causing all
sorts of bad things to happen.

This patch fixes the problem by using the new function,
device_create_drvdata().

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 drivers/ide/ide-probe.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
index 34b0d4f..655ec7e 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -648,13 +648,12 @@ static int ide_register_port(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
 
 	get_device(&hwif->gendev);
 
-	hwif->portdev = device_create(ide_port_class, &hwif->gendev,
-				      MKDEV(0, 0), hwif->name);
+	hwif->portdev = device_create_drvdata(ide_port_class, &hwif->gendev,
+					      MKDEV(0, 0), hwif, hwif->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(hwif->portdev)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(hwif->portdev);
 		device_unregister(&hwif->gendev);
 	}
-	dev_set_drvdata(hwif->portdev, hwif);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.5.5.1

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