Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] RTC subsystem, class

Hi,

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:45, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> +int rtc_read_time(struct class_device *class_dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
> +{
> +       int err = -EINVAL;
> +       struct rtc_class_ops *ops = class_get_devdata(class_dev);
> +
> +       if (ops->read_time) {
> +               memset(tm, 0, sizeof(struct rtc_time));
> 

What guarantees that ops is not NULL here? Userspace can keep the
attribute (file) open and issue read after class_device was unregistered
and devdata set to NULL.

-- 
Dmitry
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