We don't need a kernel thread per CPU for this application.
Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently, following test programs don't finished.
% ruby -e '
Thread.new { sleep }
File.read("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies")
'
strace expose the reason.
...
open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbf9fa6b8) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3])
read(3, "1400000 1300000 1200000 1100000 1"..., 4096) = 62
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL
Because Ruby (the scripting language) VM assume select system-call
against regular file don't block. it because SUSv3 says "Regular files
shall always poll TRUE for reading and writing". see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html it
seems valid assumption.
But sysfs_poll() don't keep this rule although sysfs file can read and
write always.
This patch restore proper poll behavior to sysfs.
/sys/block/md*/md/sync_action polling application and another sysfs
updating sensitive application still can use POLLERR and POLLPRI.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
A sysfs attribute using sysfs_schedule_callback() to commit suicide
may end up calling device_unregister(), which will eventually call
a driver's ->remove function.
Drivers may call flush_scheduled_work() in their shutdown routines,
in which case lockdep will complain with something like the following:
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.29-rc8-kk #1
---------------------------------------------
events/4/56 is trying to acquire lock:
(events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257fc0>] flush_workqueue+0x0/0xa0
but task is already holding lock:
(events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257648>] run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
other info that might help us debug this:
3 locks held by events/4/56:
#0: (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257648>] run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
#1: (&ss->work){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257648>] run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
#2: (pci_remove_rescan_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff803c10d1>] remove_callback+0x21/0x40
stack backtrace:
Pid: 56, comm: events/4 Not tainted 2.6.29-rc8-kk #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8026dfcd>] validate_chain+0xb7d/0x1260
[<ffffffff8026eade>] __lock_acquire+0x42e/0xa40
[<ffffffff8026f148>] lock_acquire+0x58/0x80
[<ffffffff80257fc0>] ? flush_workqueue+0x0/0xa0
[<ffffffff8025800d>] flush_workqueue+0x4d/0xa0
[<ffffffff80257fc0>] ? flush_workqueue+0x0/0xa0
[<ffffffff80258070>] flush_scheduled_work+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffffa0144065>] e1000_remove+0x55/0xfe [e1000e]
[<ffffffff8033ee30>] ? sysfs_schedule_callback_work+0x0/0x50
[<ffffffff803bfeb2>] pci_device_remove+0x32/0x70
[<ffffffff80441da9>] __device_release_driver+0x59/0x90
[<ffffffff80441edb>] device_release_driver+0x2b/0x40
[<ffffffff804419d6>] bus_remove_device+0xa6/0x120
[<ffffffff8043e46b>] device_del+0x12b/0x190
[<ffffffff8043e4f6>] device_unregister+0x26/0x70
[<ffffffff803ba969>] pci_stop_dev+0x49/0x60
[<ffffffff803baab0>] pci_remove_bus_device+0x40/0xc0
[<ffffffff803c10d9>] remove_callback+0x29/0x40
[<ffffffff8033ee4f>] sysfs_schedule_callback_work+0x1f/0x50
[<ffffffff8025769a>] run_workqueue+0x15a/0x230
[<ffffffff80257648>] ? run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
[<ffffffff8025846f>] worker_thread+0x9f/0x100
[<ffffffff8025bce0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffff802583d0>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x100
[<ffffffff8025b89d>] kthread+0x4d/0x80
[<ffffffff8020d4ba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8020cebc>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8025b850>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
[<ffffffff8020d4b0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
Although we know that the device_unregister path will never acquire
a lock that a driver might try to acquire in its ->remove, in general
we should never attempt to flush a workqueue from within the same
workqueue, and lockdep rightly complains.
So as long as sysfs attributes cannot commit suicide directly and we
are stuck with this callback mechanism, put the sysfs callbacks on
their own workqueue instead of the global one.
This has the side benefit that if a suicidal sysfs attribute kicks
off a long chain of ->remove callbacks, we no longer induce a long
delay on the global queue.
This also fixes a missing module_put in the error path introduced
by sysfs-only-allow-one-scheduled-removal-callback-per-kobj.patch.
We never destroy the workqueue, but I'm not sure that's a
problem.
Reported-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix warnings and return values in sysfs bin_page_mkwrite(), fixing
fs/sysfs/bin.c: In function `bin_page_mkwrite':
fs/sysfs/bin.c:250: warning: passing argument 2 of `bb->vm_ops->page_mkwrite' from incompatible pointer type
fs/sysfs/bin.c: At top level:
fs/sysfs/bin.c:280: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Expects to have my [PATCH next] sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 86c9508eb1c0ce5aa07b5cf1d36b60c54efc3d7a
"sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files" in linux-next
crashes the PowerMac G5 when X starts up. It's caught out by the way
powerpc's pci_mmap of legacy_mem uses shmem_zero_setup(), substituting
a new vma->vm_file whose private_data no longer points to the bin_buffer
(substitution done because some versions of X crash if that mmap fails).
The fix to this is straightforward: the original vm_file is fput() in
that case, so this mmap won't block sysfs at all, so just don't switch
over to bin_vm_ops if vm_file has changed.
But more fixes made before realizing that was the problem:-
It should not be an error if bin_page_mkwrite() finds no underlying
page_mkwrite().
Check that a file already mmap'ed has the same underlying vm_ops
_before_ pointing vma->vm_ops at bin_vm_ops.
If the file being mmap'ed is a shmem/tmpfs file, don't fail the mmap
on CONFIG_NUMA=y, just because that has a set_policy and get_policy:
provide bin_set_policy, bin_get_policy and bin_migrate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The only way for a sysfs attribute to remove itself (without
deadlock) is to use the sysfs_schedule_callback() interface.
Vegard Nossum discovered that a poorly written sysfs ->store
callback can repeatedly schedule remove callbacks on the same
device over and over, e.g.
$ while true ; do echo 1 > /sys/devices/.../remove ; done
If the 'remove' attribute uses the sysfs_schedule_callback API
and also does not protect itself from concurrent accesses, its
callback handler will be called multiple times, and will
eventually attempt to perform operations on a freed kobject,
leading to many problems.
Instead of requiring all callers of sysfs_schedule_callback to
implement their own synchronization, provide the protection in
the infrastructure.
Now, sysfs_schedule_callback will only allow one scheduled
callback per kobject. On subsequent calls with the same kobject,
return -EAGAIN.
This is a short term fix. The long term fix is to allow sysfs
attributes to remove themselves directly, without any of this
callback hokey pokey.
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: s390 ccwgroup bits]
Reported-by: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Modify sysfs bin files so that we can remove the bin file while they are
still mapped. When the kobject is removed we unmap the bin file and
arrange for future accesses to the mapping to receive SIGBUS.
Implementing this prevents a nasty DOS when pci devices are hot plugged
and unplugged. Where if any of their resources were mmaped the kernel
could not free up their pci resources or release their pci data
structures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused var]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry
for sysfs. To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed
prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs: sysfs_add_one WARNs with full path to duplicate filename
As a debugging aid, it can be useful to know the full path to a
duplicate file being created in sysfs.
We now will display warnings such as:
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/foo'
when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' in the sysfs
root, or:
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/pci/slots/5/foo'
when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' under a
given directory in sysfs.
The path displayed is always a relative path to sysfs_root. The
leading '/' in the path name refers to the sysfs_root mount
point, and should not be confused with the "real" '/'.
Thanks to Alex Williamson for essentially writing sysfs_pathname.
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a
directory inode is fectched. sysfs_count_nlink needs to be
called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely
but possible scenario that the root directory is changing
as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in
general to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
SYSFS_MAGIC has been added into magic.h, so only use that definition
in magic.h to avoid potential consistency problem.
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag
debugfs: introduce stub for debugfs_create_size_t() when DEBUG_FS=n
sysfs: fix problems with binary files
PNP: fix broken pnp lowercasing for acpi module aliases
driver core: Convert '/' to '!' in dev_set_name()
Some sysfs binary files don't like having 0 passed to them as a size.
Fix this up at the root by just returning to the vfs if userspace asks
us for a zero sized buffer.
Thanks to Pavel Roskin for pointing this out.
Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
... and don't bother in callers. Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.
i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With this patch all directory fops instances that have a readdir
that doesn't take the BKL are switched to generic_file_llseek.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
It finally dawned on me what the clean fix to sysfs_rename_dir
calling kobject_set_name is. Move the work into kobject_rename
where it belongs. The callers serialize us anyway so this is
safe.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Because they can be, and because code like this produces a warning if
they're not:
struct device_attribute dev_attr;
sysfs_notify(&kobj, NULL, dev_attr.attr.name);
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As inode creation is protected by sysfs_mutex, ilookup5_nowait()
always either fails to find at all or finds one which is fully
initialized, so using ilookup5_nowait() or ilookup5() doesn't make any
difference. Switch to ilookup5() as it's planned to be removed. This
change also makes lookup return value handling a bit simpler.
This change was suggested by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent
sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.
In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.
So:
- export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
notify on and hold it in an md structure.
- split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Print the name of the last-accessed sysfs file when we oops, to help track
down oopses which occur in sysfs store/read handlers. Because these oopses
tend to not leave any trace of the offending code in the stack traces.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes
part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. Also, with this,
one fo the if() sections collapses entirely into the WARN().
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs_chmod_file() calls notify_change() to change the permission bits
on a sysfs file. Replace with explicit call to sysfs_setattr() and
fsnotify_change().
This is equivalent, except that security_inode_setattr() is not
called. This function is called by drivers, so the security checks do
not make any sense.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It is possible that the entry in sysfs already exists, one case of this is
when a network device is renamed to bonding_masters. Anyway, in this case
the proper error path is for device_rename to return an error code, not to
generate bogus backtrace and errors.
Also, to avoid possible races, the create link should be done before the
remove link. This makes a device rename atomic operation like other renames.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sysfs allows attribute files to be truncated, e.g. using ftruncate(), with the
expected effect on their inode. For most attributes, this doesn't change the
"real" size of the file i.e. how much can be read from it. However, the
parameter validation for reading and writing binary attribute files is based
on the inode size and not the size specified in the file's bin_attribute, so it
can be broken by this. For example, if we try using dd to write to such a file:
# pwd
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:08:00.0
# ls -l config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 1 17:35 config
# dd if=/dev/zero of=config bs=4 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# ls -l config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 17:50 config
# dd if=/dev/zero of=config bs=4 count=1 seek=128
dd: writing `config': No space left on device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
Also, after truncation to 0, parameter validation for read and write is
disabled. Most bin_attribute read and write methods also validate the size and
offset, but for some this will allow out-of-range access. This may be a
security issue, though access to such files is often limited to root. In any
case, the validation should remain for safety's sake!)
This was previously reported in Bugzilla as bug 9867.
sysfs should ignore size changes or else refuse them (by returning -EINVAL).
This patch makes it ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new BDI capability flag: BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB. If this flag is
set, then don't update the per-bdi writeback stats from
test_set_page_writeback() and test_clear_page_writeback().
Misc cleanups:
- convert bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() and friends to static inline functions
- create a flag that includes all three dirty/writeback related flags,
since almst all users will want to have them toghether
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have a problem in scsi_transport_spi in that we need to customise
not only the visibility of the attributes, but also their mode. Fix
this by making the is_visible() callback return a mode, with 0
indicating is not visible.
Also add a sysfs_update_group() API to allow us to change either the
visibility or mode of the files at any time on the fly.
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12. It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.
Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value. The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations. Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
After an experimental deletion of the unnecessary inclusion of
<linux/slab.h> from the header file <linux/percpu.h>, the following
files under fs/sysfs were exposed as needing to explicitly include
<linux/slab.h>.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Allow callers of sysfs_remove_link() to pass a NULL kobj, in which case
sysfs_root will be used as the parent directory. This allows us to tear down
top level symlinks created via sysfs_create_link(), which already has
similar handling of a NULL parent object.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Try to find the culprit who caused
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150
Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It's possible that the caller of sysfs_remove_group messed up and passed in an attribute group that was not really registered to this kobject. But don't panic for such a foolish error, spit out a warning about what happened, and continue on our way safely.
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (200 commits)
[SCSI] usbstorage: use last_sector_bug flag universally
[SCSI] libsas: abstract STP task status into a function
[SCSI] ultrastor: clean up inline asm warnings
[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix firmware build
[SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls
[SCSI] ch: remove forward declarations
[SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug
[SCSI] ch: handle class_device_create failure properly
[SCSI] NCR5380: fix section mismatch
[SCSI] sg: fix /proc/scsi/sg/devices when no SCSI devices
[SCSI] IB/iSER: add logical unit reset support
[SCSI] don't use __GFP_DMA for sense buffers if not required
[SCSI] use dynamically allocated sense buffer
[SCSI] scsi.h: add macro for enclosure bit of inquiry data
[SCSI] sd: add fix for devices with last sector access problems
[SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
[SCSI] aacraid: add Voodoo Lite class of cards.
[SCSI] aacraid: add new driver features flags
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Issue correct MBC_INITIALIZE_FIRMWARE command.
...
Remove the no longer needed subsys_attributes, they are all converted to
the more sensical kobj_attributes.
There is no longer a magic fallback in sysfs attribute operations, all
kobjects which create simple attributes need explicitely a ktype
assigned, which tells the core what was intended here.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.
This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.
Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
<hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Instead of walking from the source down to the root of sysfs, and back
to the target, we stop at the first directory the source and the target
share.
This link:
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-0:1.0/ep_81
pointed to:
../../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep81
now it just points to:
usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81
Thanks to Denis Cheng for bringing this up, and sending the initial patch.
CC: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch allows the various users of attribute_groups to selectively
allow the appearance of group attributes. The primary consumer of
this will be the transport classes in which we currently have
elaborate attribute selection algorithms to do this same thing.
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
I can't see a reason why these shouldn't work on every group. However,
they only seem to work on named groups. This patch allows the group
functions to work on anonymous groups (those with NULL names).
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
sysfs_rename/move_dir() have the following bugs.
- On dentry lookup failure, kfree() is called on ERR_PTR() value.
- sysfs_move_dir() has an extra dput() on success path.
Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sysfs tries to keep dcache a strict subset of sysfs_dirent tree by
shooting down dentries when a node is removed, that is, no negative
dentry for sysfs. However, the lookup function returned NULL and thus
created negative dentries when the target node didn't exist.
Make sysfs_lookup() return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) on lookup failure. This
fixes the NULL dereference bug in sysfs_get_dentry() discovered by
bluetooth rfcomm device moving around.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I found that there is a off-by-one problem in the following code.
Version: 2.6.24-rc2
File: fs/sysfs/file.c:118-122
Function: fill_read_buffer
--------------------------------------------------------------------
count = ops->show(kobj, attr_sd->s_attr.attr, buffer->page);
sysfs_put_active_two(attr_sd);
BUG_ON(count > (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE);
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Because according to the specification of the sysfs and the implement of
the show methods, the show methods return the number of bytes which would
be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing null.So if the
return value of the show methods equals PAGE_SIZE - 1, the buffer is full
in fact. And if the return value equals PAGE_SIZE, the resulting string
was already truncated,or buffer overflow occurred.
This patch fixes an off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
