On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> as the skeleton driver was made ready for autosuspend a race condition
> was introduced. The reference to get device must be gotten before the
> autosuspend counter is upped, as this operation may sleep, dropping BKL.
> Dropping BKL means that the pointer to the device may become invalid.
> Here's the fix.

A good example of the dangers of relying on BKL for anything serious.

Alan Stern


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