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    iio: Prevent race between IIO chardev opening and IIO device free · 0d5b7dae
    Lars-Peter Clausen authored
    
    
    Set the IIO device as the parent for the character device
    
    We need to make sure that the IIO device is not freed while the character device
    exists, otherwise the freeing of the IIO device might race against the file open
    callback. Do this by setting the character device's parent to the IIO device,
    this will cause the character device to grab a reference to the IIO device and
    only release it once the character device itself has been removed.
    
    Also move the registration of the character device before the registration of
    the IIO device to avoid the (rather theoretical case) that the IIO device is
    already freed again before we can add the character device and grab a reference
    to the IIO device.
    
    We also need to move the call to cdev_del() from iio_dev_release() to
    iio_device_unregister() (where it should have been in the first place anyway) to
    avoid a reference cycle. As iio_dev_release() is only called once all reference
    are dropped, but the character device holds a reference to the IIO device.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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