Re: [PATCH] input: psmouse: fix potential input register race inpsmouse_connect()

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 16:48:37 EST


On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:13:45PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
>
> If we successfully call input_register_device() in
> psmouse_connect but sysfs_create_group() fails, we'll enter the error
> path without ever having called input_unregister_device() (potentially
> leaking memory, or creating a race condition if something else attempts
> to access the new input device). This calls input_unregister_device
> from the error path, and sets input_dev to NULL so that we don't
> attempt to also call input_free_device on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you Andres.

--
Dmitry

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