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Tejun Heo
f9b9a6217c sysfs: prepare path write for unified regular / bin file handling
sysfs bin file handling will be merged into the regular file support.
This patch prepares the write path.

bin file write is almost identical to regular file write except that
the write length is capped by the inode size and @off is passed to the
write method.  This patch adds bin file handling to sysfs_write_file()
so that it can handle both regular and bin files.

A new file_operations struct sysfs_bin_operations is added, which
currently only hosts sysfs_write_file() and generic_file_llseek().
This isn't used yet but will eventually replace fs/sysfs/bin.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:27:40 -07:00
Tejun Heo
13c589d5b0 sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files
sysfs read path implements its own buffering scheme between userland
and kernel callbacks, which essentially is a degenerate duplicate of
seq_file.  This patch replaces the custom read buffering
implementation in sysfs with seq_file.

While the amount of code reduction is small, this reduces low level
hairiness and enables future development of a new versatile API based
on seq_file so that sysfs features can be shared with other
subsystems.

As write path was already converted to not use sysfs_open_file->page,
this patch makes ->page and ->count unused and removes them.

Userland behavior remains the same except for some extreme corner
cases - e.g. sysfs will now regenerate the content each time a file is
read after a non-contiguous seek whereas the original code would keep
using the same content.  While this is a userland visible behavior
change, it is extremely unlikely to be noticeable and brings sysfs
behavior closer to that of procfs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:21:03 -07:00
Tejun Heo
8ef445f080 sysfs: use transient write buffer
There isn't much to be gained by keeping around kernel buffer while a
file is open especially as the read path planned to be converted to
use seq_file and won't use the buffer.  This patch makes
sysfs_write_file() use per-write transient buffer instead of
sysfs_open_file->page.

This simplifies the write path, enables removing sysfs_open_file->page
once read path is updated and will help merging bin file write path
which already requires the use of a transient buffer due to a locking
order issue.

As the function comments of flush_write_buffer() and
sysfs_write_buffer() are being updated anyway, reformat them so that
they're more conventional.

v2: Use min_t() instead of min() in sysfs_write_file() to avoid build
    warning on arm.  Reported by build test robot.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:21:03 -07:00
Tejun Heo
bcafe4eea3 sysfs: add sysfs_open_file->sd and ->file
sysfs will be converted to use seq_file for read path, which will make
it difficult to pass around multiple pointers directly.  This patch
adds sysfs_open_file->sd and ->file so that we can reach all the
necessary data structures from sysfs_open_file.

flush_write_buffer() is updated to drop @dentry which was used to
discover the sysfs_dirent as it's now available through
sysfs_open_file->sd.

This patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:21:03 -07:00
Tejun Heo
58282d8dc2 sysfs: rename sysfs_buffer to sysfs_open_file
sysfs read path will be converted to use seq_file which will handle
buffering making sysfs_buffer a misnomer.  Rename sysfs_buffer to
sysfs_open_file, and sysfs_open_dirent->buffers to ->files.

This path is pure rename.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:16:28 -07:00
Tejun Heo
c75ec764cf sysfs: add sysfs_open_file_mutex
Add a separate mutex to protect sysfs_open_dirent->buffers list.  This
will allow performing sleepable operations while traversing
sysfs_buffers, which will be renamed to sysfs_open_file.

Note that currently sysfs_open_dirent->buffers list isn't being used
for anything and this patch doesn't make any functional difference.
It will be used to merge regular and bin file supports.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:15:48 -07:00
Tejun Heo
375b611e60 sysfs: remove sysfs_buffer->ops
Currently, sysfs_ops is fetched during sysfs_open_file() and cached in
sysfs_buffer->ops to be used while the file is open.  This patch
removes the caching and makes each operation directly fetch sysfs_ops.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior difference and is to prepare
for merging regular and bin file supports.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 17:04:34 -07:00
Tejun Heo
aea585ef8f sysfs: remove sysfs_buffer->needs_read_fill
->needs_read_fill is used to implement the following behaviors.

1. Ensure buffer filling on the first read.
2. Force buffer filling after a write.
3. Force buffer filling after a successful poll.

However, #2 and #3 don't really work as sysfs doesn't reset file
position.  While the read buffer would be refilled, the next read
would continue from the position after the last read or write,
requiring an explicit seek to the start for it to be useful, which
makes ->needs_read_fill superflous as read buffer is always refilled
if f_pos == 0.

Update sysfs_read_file() to test buffer->page for #1 instead and
remove ->needs_read_fill.  While this changes behavior in extreme
corner cases - e.g. re-reading a sysfs file after seeking to non-zero
position after a write or poll, it's highly unlikely to lead to actual
breakage.  This change is to prepare for using seq_file in the read
path.

While at it, reformat a comment in fill_write_buffer().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 11:02:04 -07:00
Tejun Heo
89e51dab7c sysfs: remove unused sysfs_buffer->pos
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05 10:54:47 -07:00
Tejun Heo
d69ac5a0bb sysfs: remove sysfs_addrm_cxt->parent_sd
sysfs_addrm_start/finish() enclose sysfs_dirent additions and
deletions and sysfs_addrm_cxt is used to record information necessary
to finish the operations.  Currently, sysfs_addrm_start() takes
@parent_sd, records it in sysfs_addrm_cxt, and assumes that all
operations in the block are performed under that @parent_sd.

This assumption has been fine until now but we want to make some
operations behave recursively and, while having @parent_sd recorded in
sysfs_addrm_cxt doesn't necessarily prevents that, it becomes
confusing.

This patch removes sysfs_addrm_cxt->parent_sd and makes
sysfs_add_one() take an explicit @parent_sd parameter.  Note that
sysfs_remove_one() doesn't need the extra argument as its parent is
always known from the target @sd.

While at it, add __acquires/releases() notations to
sysfs_addrm_start/finish() respectively.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-03 16:16:43 -07:00
Tejun Heo
cfec0bc835 sysfs: @name comes before @ns
Some internal sysfs functions which take explicit namespace argument
are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of @name which
is contrary to the established convention.  This is confusing and
error-prone especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without
causing compilation warning.

Swap the positions of @name and @ns in the following internal
functions.

 sysfs_find_dirent()
 sysfs_rename()
 sysfs_hash_and_remove()
 sysfs_name_hash()
 sysfs_name_compare()
 create_dir()

This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26 15:34:38 -07:00
Tejun Heo
388975ccca sysfs: clean up sysfs_get_dirent()
The pre-existing sysfs interfaces which take explicit namespace
argument are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of
@name which is contrary to the established convention.  For example,
we end up forcing vast majority of sysfs_get_dirent() users to do
sysfs_get_dirent(parent, NULL, name), which is silly and error-prone
especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without causing
compilation warning.

This renames sysfs_get_dirent() to sysfs_get_dirent_ns() and swap the
positions of @name and @ns, and sysfs_get_dirent() is now a wrapper
around sysfs_get_dirent_ns().  This makes confusions a lot less
likely.

There are other interfaces which take @ns before @name.  They'll be
updated by following patches.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.

v2: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() wasn't updated leading to undefined symbol
    error on module builds.  Reported by build test robot.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26 15:33:18 -07:00
Tejun Heo
58292cbe66 sysfs: make attr namespace interface less convoluted
sysfs ns (namespace) implementation became more convoluted than
necessary while trying to hide ns information from visible interface.
The relatively recent attr ns support is a good example.

* attr ns tag is determined by sysfs_ops->namespace() callback while
  dir tag is determined by kobj_type->namespace().  The placement is
  arbitrary.

* Instead of performing operations with explicit ns tag, the namespace
  callback is routed through sysfs_attr_ns(), sysfs_ops->namespace(),
  class_attr_namespace(), class_attr->namespace().  It's not simpler
  in any sense.  The only thing this convolution does is traversing
  the whole stack backwards.

The namespace callbacks are unncessary because the operations involved
are inherently synchronous.  The information can be provided in in
straight-forward top-down direction and reversing that direction is
unnecessary and against basic design principles.

This backward interface is unnecessarily convoluted and hinders
properly separating out sysfs from driver model / kobject for proper
layering.  This patch updates attr ns support such that

* sysfs_ops->namespace() and class_attr->namespace() are dropped.

* sysfs_{create|remove}_file_ns(), which take explicit @ns param, are
  added and sysfs_{create|remove}_file() are now simple wrappers
  around the ns aware functions.

* ns handling is dropped from sysfs_chmod_file().  Nobody uses it at
  this point.  sysfs_chmod_file_ns() can be added later if necessary.

* Explicit @ns is propagated through class_{create|remove}_file_ns()
  and netdev_class_{create|remove}_file_ns().

* driver/net/bonding which is currently the only user of attr
  namespace is updated to use netdev_class_{create|remove}_file_ns()
  with @bh->net as the ns tag instead of using the namespace callback.

This patch should be an equivalent conversion without any functional
difference.  It makes the code easier to follow, reduces lines of code
a bit and helps proper separation and layering.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26 14:50:01 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
07ac62a604 sysfs: file.c: fix up broken string warnings
This fixes the coding style warnings in fs/sysfs/file.c for broken
strings across lines.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21 16:37:42 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
060cc749e9 sysfs: fix up uaccess.h coding style warnings
This fixes the uaccess.h warnings in the sysfs.c files.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21 16:34:59 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ddfd6d074e sysfs: fix up 80 column coding style issues
This fixes up the 80 column coding style issues in the sysfs .c files.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21 16:33:34 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1b18dc2beb sysfs: fix up space coding style issues
This fixes up all of the space-related coding style issues for the sysfs
code.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21 16:28:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ab9bf4be4d sysfs: remove trailing whitespace
This removes all trailing whitespace errors in the sysfs code.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21 16:21:17 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1b866757fc sysfs: fix placement of EXPORT_SYMBOL()
The export should happen after the function, not at the bottom of the
file, so fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21 16:17:47 -07:00
Nick Dyer
fc60bb8339 sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes
If sysfs_notify is called on a binary attribute, bad things can
happen, so prevent it.

Note, no in-kernel usage of this is currently present, but in the
future, it's good to be safe.

Changes in V2:
- Also ignore sysfs_notify on dirs, links
- Use WARN_ON rather than silently failing
- Compiled and tested (huge apologies about first submission)

Signed-off-by: Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-07 16:05:50 -07:00
Josh Triplett
1f20dfdaed sysfs: Mark sysfs_attr_ns static
Nothing outside of fs/sysfs/file.c references this function, so mark it static.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-26 16:25:36 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
ce59791936 sysfs: Complain bitterly about attempts to remove files from nonexistent directories.
Recently an OOPS was observed from the usb serial io_ti driver when it tried to remove
sysfs directories.  Upon investigation it turns out this driver was always buggy
and that a recent sysfs change had stopped guarding itself against removing attributes
from sysfs directories that had already been removed. :(

Historically we have been silent about attempting to files from nonexistent sysfs
directories and have politely returned error codes.  That has resulted in people writing
broken code that ignores the error codes.

Issue a kernel WARNING and a stack backtrace to make it clear in no uncertain
terms that abusing sysfs is not ok, and the callers need to fix their code.

This change transforms the io_ti OOPS into a more comprehensible error message
and stack backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reported-by: Wolfgang Frisch <wfpub@roembden.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-24 12:12:32 -08:00
Al Viro
faef2b6c99 sysfs: propagate umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:03 -05:00
Al Viro
48176a973d switch sysfs_chmod_file() to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
903e21e2ee sysfs: Reject with a warning invalid uses of tagged directories.
sysfs is a core piece of ifrastructure that many people use and
few people have all of the rules in their head on how to use
it correctly.  Add warnings for people using tagged directories
improperly to that any misuses can be caught and diagnosed quickly.

A single inexpensive test in sysfs_find_dirent is almost sufficient
to catch all possible misuses.  An additional warning is needed
in sysfs_add_dirent so that we actually fail when attempting to
add an untagged dirent in a tagged directory.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19 19:24:16 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
487505c257 sysfs: Implement support for tagged files in sysfs.
Looking up files in sysfs is hard to understand and analyize because we
currently allow placing untagged files in tagged directories.  In the
implementation of that we have two subtly different meanings of NULL.
NULL meaning there is no tag on a directory entry and NULL meaning
we don't care which namespace the lookup is performed for.  This
multiple uses of NULL have resulted in subtle bugs (since fixed)
in the code.

Currently it is only the bonding driver that needs to have an untagged
file in a tagged directory.

To untagle this mess I am adding support for tagged files to sysfs.
Modifying the bonding driver to implement bonding_masters as a tagged
file.  Registering bonding_masters once for each network namespace.
Then I am removing support for untagged entries in tagged sysfs
directories.

Resulting in code that is much easier to reason about.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19 19:24:14 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
82a3242e11 sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages
On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would
print out the last sysfs file accessed.

This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs
in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of
years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that
couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback.

So it's time to delete the line.  This is good as we need all the space
we can get for oops messages at times on consoles.

Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-13 16:05:51 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
57f9bdac25 sysfs: checking for NULL instead of ERR_PTR
d_path() returns an ERR_PTR and it doesn't return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-03 17:26:28 -07:00
Jean Delvare
49c19400f6 sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file's attr can be const
sysfs_chmod_file doesn't change the attribute it operates on, so this
attribute can be marked const.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
3ff195b011 sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.
The problem.  When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name.  Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and
potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*.

What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the
sysfs dirent structure.  For directories that should show different
contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and
/sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the
context in which those directories should be visible.  Effectively
this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with
the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer.

I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple
directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories.

For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need
to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug
hardware or which modules are currently loaded.  Which means I need
a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged.

To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created
and managed by sysfs itself.

Users of this interface:
- define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration.
- call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations
- sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid

- Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process
  so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock.
- Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject.

Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer.

For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially
one line functions, and look to remain that.

Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is
both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons,
and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the
existing namespace pointer.

The work needed in sysfs is more extensive.  At each directory
or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being
created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate
tag to place on the sysfs_dirent.  Likewise at each symlink or
directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is
being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out
which tag goes along with the name I am deleting.

Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and
symlinks are supported.  There is not enough information
in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything
to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are
no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem
to solve.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
a2db684287 sysfs: Only take active references on attributes.
If we exclude directories and symlinks from the set of sysfs
dirents where we need active references we are left with
sysfs attributes (binary or not).

- Tweak sysfs_deactivate to only do something on attributes
- Move lockdep initialization into sysfs_file_add_mode to
  limit it to just attributes.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:51 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
e72ceb8cca sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_two
It turns out that holding an active reference on a directory is
pointless.  The purpose of the active references are to allows us to
block when removing sysfs entries that have custom methods so we don't
remove modules while running modular code and to keep those custom
methods from accessing data structures after the files have been
removed.  Further sysfs_remove_dir remove all elements in the
directory before removing the directory itself, so there is no chance
we will remove a directory with active children.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:51 -08:00
Emese Revfy
52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Andi Kleen
1c205ae18d sysfs: Add sysfs_add/remove_files utility functions
Adding/Removing a whole array of attributes is very common. Add a standard
utility function to do this with a simple function call, instead of
requiring drivers to open code this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:47 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
06fc0d66f7 sysfs: In sysfs_chmod_file lazily propagate the mode change.
Now that sysfs_getattr and sysfs_permission refresh the vfs
inode there is no need to immediatly push the mode change
into the vfs cache.  Reducing the amount of work needed and
simplifying the locking.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 11:24:54 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
4c6974f51a sysfs: Simplify sysfs_chmod_file semantics
Currently every caller of sysfs_chmod_file happens at either
file creation time to set a non-default mode or in response
to a specific user requested space change in policy.  Making
timestamps of when the chmod happens and notification of
a file changing mode uninteresting.

Remove the unnecessary time stamp and filesystem change
notification, and removes the last of the explicit inotify
and donitfy support from sysfs.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 11:24:53 -08:00
Neil Brown
83db93f4de sysfs: Allow sysfs_notify_dirent to be called from interrupt context.
sysfs_notify_dirent is a simple atomic operation that can be used to
alert user-space that new data can be read from a sysfs attribute.

Unfortunately it cannot currently be called from non-process context
because of its use of spin_lock which is sometimes taken with
interrupts enabled.

So change all lockers of sysfs_open_dirent_lock to disable interrupts,
thus making sysfs_notify_dirent safe to be called from non-process
context (as drivers/md does in md_safemode_timeout).

sysfs_get_open_dirent is (documented as being) only called from
process context, so it uses spin_lock_irq.  Other places
use spin_lock_irqsave.

The usage for sysfs_notify_dirent in md_safemode_timeout was
introduced in 2.6.28, so this patch is suitable for that and more
recent kernels.

Reported-by: Joel Andres Granados <jgranado@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-14 15:16:25 -07:00
Andrew Morton
086a377edc sysfs: file.c: use create_singlethread_workqueue()
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>
2009-05-28 14:24:07 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
1af3557abd sysfs: sysfs poll keep the poll rule of regular file.
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>
2009-04-16 16:17:09 -07:00
Alex Chiang
d110271e1f sysfs: don't use global workqueue in sysfs_schedule_callback()
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>
2009-04-16 16:17:08 -07:00
Alex Chiang
669420644c sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
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>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Trent Piepho
8c0e3998f5 sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
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>
2008-10-16 09:24:51 -07:00
Neil Brown
f1282c844e sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent
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>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
Andrew Morton
ae87221d3c sysfs: crash debugging
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>
2008-10-16 09:24:41 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
99fcd77d15 Use WARN() in fs/sysfs
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>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
93265d13ea sysfs: don't call notify_change
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:57 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
8e24eea728 fs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__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>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
James Bottomley
0f4238958d [SCSI] sysfs: make group is_valid return a mode_t
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>
2008-04-22 15:16:31 -05:00
Dan Williams
2424b5dd06 sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0
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>
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
c6f8773382 SYSFS: Explicitly include required header file slab.h.
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>
2008-04-19 19:10:27 -07:00
Andrew Morton
815d2d50da driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.
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>
2008-03-24 22:33:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b73e76f3c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* 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.
  ...
2008-01-25 17:19:08 -08:00
Kay Sievers
000f2a4d8c Driver Core: kill subsys_attribute and default sysfs ops
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>
2008-01-24 20:40:22 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3514faca19 kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct kset
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>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
d7b3788965 sysfs: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated, use DEFINE_SPINLOCK instead

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:08 -08:00
James Bottomley
11f24fbdf5 [SCSI] sysfs: fix the sysfs_add_file_to_group interfaces
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>
2008-01-23 11:29:17 -06:00
Miao Xie
8118a859dc sysfs: fix off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer()
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>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
Chris Malley
3932bf6059 sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
Spelling error in sysfs_create_file kerneldoc.

Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 03:14:32 +02:00
Tejun Heo
6d66f5cd26 sysfs: add copyrights
Sysfs has gone through considerable amount of reimplementation.  Add
copyrights.  Any objections?  :-)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:12 -07:00
Tejun Heo
a4e8b91254 sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent
Sysfs file poll implementation is scattered over sysfs and kobject.
Event numbering is done in sysfs_dirent but wait itself is done on
kobject.  This not only unecessarily bloats both kobject and
sysfs_dirent but is also buggy - if a sysfs_dirent is removed while
there still are pollers, the associaton betwen the kobject and
sysfs_dirent breaks and kobject may be freed with the pollers still
sleeping on it.

This patch moves whole poll implementation into sysfs_open_dirent.
Each time a sysfs_open_dirent is created, event number restarts from 1
and pollers sleep on sysfs_open_dirent.  As event sequence number is
meaningless without any open file and pollers should have open file
and thus sysfs_open_dirent, this ephemeral event counting works and is
a saner implementation.

This patch fixes the dnagling sleepers bug and reduces the sizes of
kobject and sysfs_dirent by one pointer.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Tejun Heo
85a4ffad3d sysfs: implement sysfs_open_dirent
Implement sysfs_open_dirent which represents an open file (attribute)
sysfs_dirent.  A file sysfs_dirent with one or more open files have
one sysfs_dirent and all sysfs_buffers (one for each open instance)
are linked to it.

sysfs_open_dirent doesn't actually do anything yet but will be used to
off-load things which are specific for open file sysfs_dirent from it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Tejun Heo
b1fc3d6144 sysfs: make s_elem an anonymous union
Make s_elem an anonymous union.  Prefixing with s_elem makes things
needlessly longer without any advantage.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:10 -07:00
Tejun Heo
50ab1a7286 sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release()
In sysfs_release(), sysfs_buffer pointed to by filp->private_data is
guaranteed to exist.  Kill the unnecessary NULL check.  This also
makes the code more consistent with the counterpart in fs/sysfs/bin.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:10 -07:00
Tejun Heo
b05f0548da sysfs: kill unnecessary sysfs_get() in open paths
There's no reason to get an extra reference to sysfs_dirent for an
open file.  Open file has a reference to the dentry which in turn has
a reference to sysfs_dirent.  This is fairly obvious as otherwise open
itself won't be able to access the sysfs_dirent.  Kill the extra
sysfs_get() and matching sysfs_put().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:10 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a7ad7f044 sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()
sysfs_update_file() depends on inode->i_mtime but sysfs iondes are now
reclaimable making the reported modification time unreliable.  There's
only one user (pci hotplug) of this notification mechanism and it
reportedly isn't utilized from userland.

Kill sysfs_update_file().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:09 -07:00
Tejun Heo
f88123eaf9 sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_file() such that it updates sd->s_mode too
sysfs_chmod_file() looked and updated only inode of the target file.
Dentry and inode are reclaimable and the update mode data will go away
when the inode is reclaimed.  This patch makes sysfs_chmod_file()
update sd->s_mode too such that the change is permanent.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
932ea2e374 sysfs: Introduce sysfs_rename_mutex
Looking carefully at the rename code we have a subtle dependency
that the structure of sysfs not change while we are performing
a rename.  If the parent directory of the object we are renaming
changes while the rename is being performed nasty things could
happen when we go to release our locks.

So introduce a sysfs_rename_mutex to prevent this highly
unlikely theoretical issue.

In addition hold sysfs_rename_mutex over all calls to
sysfs_get_dentry. Allowing sysfs_get_dentry to be simplified
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:08 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
a93720eeb4 sysfs: Fix typos in fs/sysfs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Tejun Heo
23dc279950 sysfs: make sysfs_add_one() automatically check for duplicate entry
Make sysfs_add_one() check for duplicate entry and return -EEXIST if
such entry exists.  This simplifies node addition code a bit.

This patch doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:04 -07:00
Tejun Heo
41fc1c2745 sysfs: make sysfs_add/remove_one() call link/unlink_sibling() implictly
When adding or removing a sysfs_dirent, the user used to be required
to call link/unlink separately.  It was for two reasons - code looked
like that before sysfs_addrm_cxt conversion and to avoid looping
through parent_sd->children list twice during removal.

Performance optimization during removal just isn't worth it.  Make
sysfs_add/remove_one() call sysfs_link/unlink_sibing() implicitly.
This makes code simpler albeit slightly less efficient.  This change
doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:03 -07:00
Dave Young
52e8c209d6 sysfs/file.c - use mutex instead of semaphore
Use mutex instead of semaphore in sysfs/file.c : sys_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:03 -07:00
Tejun Heo
967e35dcc9 sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
Node addition failure is detected by testing return value of
sysfs_addfm_finish() which returns the number of added and removed
nodes.  As the function is called as the last step of addition right
on top of error handling block, the if blocks looked like the
following.

	if (sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt))
		success handling, usually return;
	/* fall through to error handling */

This is the opposite of usual convention in sysfs and makes the code
difficult to understand.  This patch inverts the test and makes those
blocks look more like others.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:50 -07:00
Tejun Heo
51225039f3 sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable
This patch makes dentries and inodes for sysfs directories
reclaimable.

* sysfs_notify() is modified to walk sysfs_dirent tree instead of
  dentry tree.

* sysfs_update_file() and sysfs_chmod_file() use sysfs_get_dentry() to
  grab the victim dentry.

* sysfs_rename_dir() and sysfs_move_dir() grab all dentries using
  sysfs_get_dentry() on startup.

* Dentries for all shadowed directories are pinned in memory to serve
  as lookup start point.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:09 -07:00
Tejun Heo
fb6896da37 sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update
The original add/remove code had the following problems.

* parent's timestamps are updated on dentry instantiation.  this is
  incorrect with reclaimable files.

* updating parent's timestamps isn't synchronized.

* parent nlink update assumes the inode is accessible which won't be
  true once directory dentries are made reclaimable.

This patch restructures add/remove paths to resolve the above
problems.  Add/removal are done in the following steps.

1. sysfs_addrm_start() : acquire locks including sysfs_mutex and other
   resources.

2-a. sysfs_add_one() : add new sd.  linking the new sd into the
     children list is caller's responsibility.

2-b. sysfs_remove_one() : remove a sd.  unlinking the sd from the
     children list is caller's responsibility.

3. sysfs_addrm_finish() : release all resources and clean up.

Steps 2-a and/or 2-b can be repeated multiple times.

Parent's inode is looked up during sysfs_addrm_start().  If available
(always at the moment), it's pinned and nlink is updated as sd's are
added and removed.  Timestamps are updated during finish if any sd has
been added or removed.  If parent's inode is not available during
start, sysfs_mutex ensures that parent inode is not created till
add/remove is complete.

All the complexity is contained inside the helper functions.
Especially, dentry/inode handling is properly hidden from the rest of
sysfs which now mostly operate on sysfs_dirents.  As an added bonus,
codes which use these helpers to add and remove sysfs_dirents are now
more structured and simpler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:09 -07:00
Tejun Heo
3007e997de sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree
As kobj sysfs dentries and inodes are gonna be made reclaimable,
i_mutex can't be used to protect sysfs_dirent tree.  Use sysfs_mutex
globally instead.  As the whole tree is protected with sysfs_mutex,
there is no reason to keep sysfs_rename_sem.  Drop it.

While at it, add docbook comments to functions which require
sysfs_mutex locking.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:08 -07:00
Tejun Heo
608e266a2d sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry
As kobj sysfs dentries and inodes are gonna be made reclaimable,
dentry can't be used as naming token for sysfs file/directory, replace
kobj->dentry with kobj->sd.  The only external interface change is
shadow directory handling.  All other changes are contained in kobj
and sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:08 -07:00
Tejun Heo
f0b0af4792 sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent()
Implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent().
sysfs_dirent_exist() is replaced by sysfs_find_dirent().  These will
be used to make directory entries reclamiable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:08 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Tejun Heo
73107cb3ad sysfs: kill attribute file orphaning
Now that sysfs_dirent can be disconnected from kobject on deletion,
there is no need to orphan each attribute files.  All [bin_]attribute
nodes are automatically orphaned when the parent node is deleted.
Kill attribute file orphaning.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:05 -07:00
Tejun Heo
0ab66088c8 sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect
sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect

Opening a sysfs node references its associated kobject, so userland
can arbitrarily prolong lifetime of a kobject which complicates
lifetime rules in drivers.  This patch implements active reference and
makes the association between kobject and sysfs immediately breakable.

Now each sysfs_dirent has two reference counts - s_count and s_active.
s_count is a regular reference count which guarantees that the
containing sysfs_dirent is accessible.  As long as s_count reference
is held, all sysfs internal fields in sysfs_dirent are accessible
including s_parent and s_name.

The newly added s_active is active reference count.  This is acquired
by invoking sysfs_get_active() and it's the caller's responsibility to
ensure sysfs_dirent itself is accessible (should be holding s_count
one way or the other).  Dereferencing sysfs_dirent to access objects
out of sysfs proper requires active reference.  This includes access
to the associated kobjects, attributes and ops.

The active references can be drained and denied by calling
sysfs_deactivate().  All active sysfs_dirents must be deactivated
after deletion but before the default reference is dropped.  This
enables immediate disconnect of sysfs nodes.  Once a sysfs_dirent is
deleted, it won't access any entity external to sysfs proper.

Because attr/bin_attr ops access both the node itself and its parent
for kobject, they need to hold active references to both.
sysfs_get/put_active_two() helpers are provided to help grabbing both
references.  Parent's is acquired first and released last.

Unlike other operations, mmapped area lingers on after mmap() is
finished and the module implement implementing it and kobj need to
stay referenced till all the mapped pages are gone.  This is
accomplished by holding one set of active references to the bin_attr
and its parent if there have been any mmap during lifetime of an
openfile.  The references are dropped when the openfile is released.

This change makes sysfs lifetime rules independent from both kobject's
and module's.  It not only fixes several race conditions caused by
sysfs not holding onto the proper module when referencing kobject, but
also helps fixing and simplifying lifetime management in driver model
and drivers by taking sysfs out of the equation.

Please read the following message for more info.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:05 -07:00
Tejun Heo
3e5190380e sysfs: make sysfs_dirent->s_element a union
Make sd->s_element a union of sysfs_elem_{dir|symlink|attr|bin_attr}
and rename it to s_elem.  This is to achieve...

* some level of type checking : changing symlink to point to
  sysfs_dirent instead of kobject is much safer and less painful now.
* easier / standardized dereferencing
* allow sysfs_elem_* to contain more than one entry

Where possible, pointer is obtained by directly deferencing from sd
instead of going through other entities.  This reduces dependencies to
dentry, inode and kobject.  to_attr() and to_bin_attr() are unused now
and removed.

This is in preparation of object reference simplification.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:04 -07:00
Tejun Heo
0c096b507f sysfs: add sysfs_dirent->s_name
Add s_name to sysfs_dirent.  This is to further reduce dependency to
the associated dentry.  Name is copied for directories and symlinks
but not for attributes.

Where possible, name dereferences are converted to use sd->s_name.
sysfs_symlink->link_name and sysfs_get_name() are unused now and
removed.

This change allows symlink to be implemented using sysfs_dirent tree
proper, which is the last remaining dentry-dependent sysfs walk.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:04 -07:00
Tejun Heo
a26cd7226c sysfs: consolidate sysfs_dirent creation functions
Currently there are four functions to create sysfs_dirent -
__sysfs_new_dirent(), sysfs_new_dirent(), __sysfs_make_dirent() and
sysfs_make_dirent().  Other than sysfs_make_dirent(), no function has
two users if calls to implement other functions are excluded.

This patch consolidates sysfs_dirent creation functions into the
following two.

* sysfs_new_dirent() : allocate and initialize
* sysfs_attach_dirent() : attach to sysfs_dirent hierarchy and/or
			  associate with dentry

This simplifies interface and gives callers more flexibility.  This is
in preparation of object reference simplification.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:04 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
92f4c701aa use simple_read_from_buffer() in fs/
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() in binfmt_misc, configfs, and sysfs.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
823bccfc40 remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes.  The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.

Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
Alan Stern
523ded71de device_schedule_callback() needs a module reference
This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of
device_schedule_callback().  It is necessary to acquire a reference to the
module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being
unloaded before the callback can run.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:32 -07:00
Alan Stern
e7b0d26a86 [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration
This patch (as869) reinstates the mutual exclusion between sysfs
attribute method calls and attribute unregistration.  The
previously-reported deadlocks have been fixed, and this exclusion is
by far the simplest way to avoid races during driver unbinding.

The check for orphaned read-buffers has been moved down slightly, so
that the remainder of a partially-read buffer will still be available
to userspace even after the attribute has been unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-15 15:29:26 -07:00
Alan Stern
d9a9cdfb07 [PATCH] sysfs and driver core: add callback helper, used by SCSI and S390
This patch (as868) adds a helper routine for device drivers that need
to set up a callback to perform some action in a different process's
context.  This is intended for use by attribute methods that want to
unregister themselves or their parent device.  Attribute method calls
are mutually exclusive with unregistration, so such actions cannot be
taken directly.

Two attribute methods are converted to use the new helper routine: one
for SCSI device deletion and one for System/390 ccwgroup devices.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-15 15:29:26 -07:00
Alan Stern
dfa87c824a sysfs: allow attributes to be added to groups
This patch (as860) adds two new sysfs routines:
sysfs_add_file_to_group() and sysfs_remove_file_from_group().
A later patch adds code that uses the new routines.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-23 15:03:46 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
f95d882d81 PCI/sysfs/kobject kernel-doc fixes
Fix kernel-doc warnings in PCI, sysfs, and kobject files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-16 15:30:10 -08:00
Oliver Neukum
82244b169e sysfs: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer()
if a driver returns an error in fill_read_buffer(), the buffer will be
marked as filled. Subsequent reads will return eof. But there is
no data because of an error, not because it has been read.
Not marking the buffer filled is the obvious fix.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:13 -08:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
f750653670 sysfs: kobject_put cleanup
This patch removes redundant argument checks for kobject_put().

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:13 -08:00
Oliver Neukum
94bebf4d1b Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write()
This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs.
It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode.
Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned.
IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free
associated data structures or be unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:13 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek
f427f5d5d6 [PATCH] sysfs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the sysfs
filesystem code.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:41 -08:00
Thomas Maier
035ed7a494 sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data
since most of the files in sysfs are text files,
it would be nice, if the "store" function called
during sysfs_write_file() gets a zero terminated
string / data.
The current implementation seems not to ensure this.
(But only if it is the first time the zeroed buffer
page is allocated.)

So the buffer can be scanned by sscanf() easily,
for example.

This patch simply sets a \0 char behind the
data in buffer->page.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Hidetoshi Seto
97a501849d sysfs: update obsolete comment in sysfs_update_file
And the obsolete comment should be updated (or totally removed).

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:49:54 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
e42344514c sysfs: remove duplicated dput in sysfs_update_file
Following function can drops d_count twice against one reference
by lookup_one_len.

<SOURCE>
/**
 * sysfs_update_file - update the modified timestamp on an object attribute.
 * @kobj: object we're acting for.
 * @attr: attribute descriptor.
 */
int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr)
{
        struct dentry * dir = kobj->dentry;
        struct dentry * victim;
        int res = -ENOENT;

        mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
        victim = lookup_one_len(attr->name, dir, strlen(attr->name));
        if (!IS_ERR(victim)) {
                /* make sure dentry is really there */
                if (victim->d_inode &&
                    (victim->d_parent->d_inode == dir->d_inode)) {
                        victim->d_inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
                        fsnotify_modify(victim);

                        /**
                         * Drop reference from initial sysfs_get_dentry().
                         */
                        dput(victim);
                        res = 0;
                } else
                        d_drop(victim);

                /**
                 * Drop the reference acquired from sysfs_get_dentry() above.
                 */
                dput(victim);
        }
        mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);

        return res;
}
</SOURCE>

PCI-hotplug (drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c) is only user of
this function. I confirmed that dentry of /sys/bus/pci/slots/XXX/*
have negative d_count value.

This patch removes unnecessary dput().

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:49:54 -07:00
Zach Brown
5c1fdf4150 [PATCH] pr_debug: sysfs: use size_t length modifier in pr_debug format arguments
sysfs: use size_t length modifier in pr_debug format arguments

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:19 -07:00
NeilBrown
4508a7a734 [PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable
It works like this:
  Open the file
  Read all the contents.
  Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works)
  When poll returns,
     close the file and go to top of loop.
   or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'.

Events are signaled by an object manager calling
   sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr);

If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which
contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group).

This has a cost of one int  per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject,
one int per open file.

The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify
functionality.  Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs
attributes as well?

This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action
to be pollable

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14 11:41:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6e0dd741a8 [PATCH] sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffers
No one should be writing a PAGE_SIZE worth of data to a normal sysfs
file, so properly terminate the buffer.

Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out my supidity here.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-02 13:03:31 -07:00