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Dmitry Torokhov authored
Commit 7f8d4cad ("Input: extend the number of event (and other) devices") made evdev, joydev and mousedev to embed struct cdev into their respective structures representing input devices. Unfortunately character device structure may outlive the parent structure unless we do not set it up as parent of character device so that it will stay pinned until character device is freed. Also, now that parent structure is pinned while character device exists we do not need to pin and unpin it every time user opens or closes it. Reported-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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