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>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 drivers/power/power_supply_core.c |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c b/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
index 138dd76..af1633e 100644
--- a/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
+++ b/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
@@ -91,15 +91,13 @@ int power_supply_register(struct device *parent, struct power_supply *psy)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 
-	psy->dev = device_create(power_supply_class, parent, 0,
-				 "%s", psy->name);
+	psy->dev = device_create_drvdata(power_supply_class, parent, 0,
+					 psy, "%s", psy->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(psy->dev)) {
 		rc = PTR_ERR(psy->dev);
 		goto dev_create_failed;
 	}
 
-	dev_set_drvdata(psy->dev, psy);
-
 	INIT_WORK(&psy->changed_work, power_supply_changed_work);
 
 	rc = power_supply_create_attrs(psy);
-- 
1.5.5.1

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