From: Peter Beutner Fix a race condition where an application which issued a FE_READ_STATUS ioctl directly after FE_SET_FRONTEND would see an old status, i.e. FE_READ_STATUS would be executed before the frontend thread has even seen the tungin request from FE_SET_FRONTEND. Signed-off-by: Peter Beutner Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.12-git8/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.12-git8.orig/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2005-06-27 13:18:22.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-git8/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2005-06-27 13:22:55.000000000 +0200 @@ -626,11 +626,21 @@ static int dvb_frontend_ioctl(struct ino break; } - case FE_READ_STATUS: + case FE_READ_STATUS: { + fe_status_t* status = parg; + + /* if retune was requested but hasn't occured yet, prevent + * that user get signal state from previous tuning */ + if(fepriv->state == FESTATE_RETUNE) { + err=0; + *status = 0; + break; + } + if (fe->ops->read_status) - err = fe->ops->read_status(fe, (fe_status_t*) parg); + err = fe->ops->read_status(fe, status); break; - + } case FE_READ_BER: if (fe->ops->read_ber) err = fe->ops->read_ber(fe, (__u32*) parg); --