Alan Stern 3589972e51 Driver core: fix race in dev_driver_string ...

This patch (as1310) works around a race in dev_driver_string().  If
the device is unbound while the function is running, dev->driver might
become NULL after we test it and before we dereference it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

2009-12-11 11:24:55 -08:00

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