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2015-03-25kobject: WARN as tip when call kobject_get() to a kobject not initializedEthan Zhao1-1/+6
call kobject_get() to kojbect that is not initalized or released will only leave following like call trace to us: -----------[ cut here ]------------ [ 54.545816] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 213 at include/linux/kref.h:47 kobject_get+0x41/0x50() [ 54.642595] Modules linked in: i2c_i801(+) mfd_core shpchp(+) acpi_cpufreq(+) edac_core ioatdma(+) xfs libcrc32c ast syscopyarea ixgbe sysfillrect sysimgblt sr_mod sd_mod drm_kms_helper igb mdio cdrom e1000e ahci dca ttm libahci uas drm i2c_algo_bit ptp megaraid_sas libata usb_storage i2c_core pps_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [ 55.007264] CPU: 0 PID: 213 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.18.5 [ 55.099970] Hardware name: Oracle Corporation SUN FIRE X4170 M2 SERVER /ASSY,MOTHERBOARD,X4170, BIOS 08120104 05/08/2012 [ 55.239736] Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred [ 55.308598] 0000000000000000 00000000bd730b61 ffff88046742baf8 ffffffff816b7edb [ 55.398305] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88046742bb38 ffffffff81078ae1 [ 55.488040] ffff88046742bbd8 ffff8806706b3000 0000000000000292 0000000000000000 [ 55.577776] Call Trace: [ 55.608228] [<ffffffff816b7edb>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58 [ 55.670895] [<ffffffff81078ae1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xa0 [ 55.743952] [<ffffffff81078bfa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 55.814929] [<ffffffff8130d0d1>] kobject_get+0x41/0x50 [ 55.878654] [<ffffffff8153e955>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x75/0xc0 [ 55.946528] [<ffffffff8153f37e>] cpufreq_update_policy+0x2e/0x1f0 The above issue was casued by a race condition, if there is a WARN in kobject_get() of the kobject is not initialized, that would save us much time to debug it. Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07kobject: fix NULL pointer derefernce in kobj_child_ns_opsPankaj Dubey1-1/+1
We will hit NULL pointer dereference if we call platform_device_register_simple or platform_device_add at very early stage. I have observed following crash when called platform_device_add from "init_irq" hook of machine_desc. This patch fixes this issue and let system handle this case gracefully instead of kernel panic. [0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c [0.000000] pgd = c0004000 [0.000000] [0000000c] *pgd=00000000 [0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT ARM [0.000000] Modules linked in: [0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 3.17.0-rc6-00198-ga1603f1-dirty #319 [0.000000] task: c05b23f0 ti: c05a8000 task.ti: c05a8000 [0.000000] PC is at kobject_namespace+0x18/0x58 [0.000000] LR is at kobject_add_internal+0x90/0x2ec [snip] [0.000000] [<c01b1df0>] (kobject_namespace) from [<c01b2338>] (kobject_add_internal+0x90/0x2ec) [0.000000] [<c01b2338>] (kobject_add_internal) from [<c01b2728>] (kobject_add+0x4c/0x98) [0.000000] [<c01b2728>] (kobject_add) from [<c0226274>] (device_add+0xe8/0x51c) [0.000000] [<c0226274>] (device_add) from [<c0229c70>] (platform_device_add+0xb4/0x214) [0.000000] [<c0229c70>] (platform_device_add) from [<c022a338>] (platform_device_register_full+0xb8/0xdc) [0.000000] [<c022a338>] (platform_device_register_full) from [<c0570214>] (exynos_init_irq+0x90/0x9c) [0.000000] [<c0570214>] (exynos_init_irq) from [<c056c18c>] (init_IRQ+0x2c/0x78) [0.000000] [<c056c18c>] (init_IRQ) from [<c0569a54>] (start_kernel+0x22c/0x378) [0.000000] [<c0569a54>] (start_kernel) from [<40008070>] (0x40008070) [0.000000] Code: e590000c e3500000 0a00000e e5903014 (e593300c) Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-07sysfs, kobject: add sysfs wrapper for kernfs_enable_ns()Tejun Heo1-1/+1
Currently, kobject is invoking kernfs_enable_ns() directly. This is fine now as sysfs and kernfs are enabled and disabled together. If sysfs is disabled, kernfs_enable_ns() is switched to dummy implementation too and everything is fine; however, kernfs will soon have its own config option CONFIG_KERNFS and !SYSFS && KERNFS will be possible, which can make kobject call into non-dummy kernfs_enable_ns() with NULL kernfs_node pointers leading to an oops. Introduce sysfs_enable_ns() which is a wrapper around kernfs_enable_ns() so that it can be made a noop depending only on CONFIG_SYSFS regardless of the planned CONFIG_KERNFS. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason: "This is a pretty big pull, and most of these changes have been floating in btrfs-next for a long time. Filipe's properties work is a cool building block for inheriting attributes like compression down on a per inode basis. Jeff Mahoney kicked in code to export filesystem info into sysfs. Otherwise, lots of performance improvements, cleanups and bug fixes. Looks like there are still a few other small pending incrementals, but I wanted to get the bulk of this in first" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (149 commits) Btrfs: fix spin_unlock in check_ref_cleanup Btrfs: setup inode location during btrfs_init_inode_locked Btrfs: don't use ram_bytes for uncompressed inline items Btrfs: fix btrfs_search_slot_for_read backwards iteration Btrfs: do not export ulist functions Btrfs: rework ulist with list+rb_tree Btrfs: fix memory leaks on walking backrefs failure Btrfs: fix send file hole detection leading to data corruption Btrfs: add a reschedule point in btrfs_find_all_roots() Btrfs: make send's file extent item search more efficient Btrfs: fix to catch all errors when resolving indirect ref Btrfs: fix protection between walking backrefs and root deletion btrfs: fix warning while merging two adjacent extents Btrfs: fix infinite path build loops in incremental send btrfs: undo sysfs when open_ctree() fails Btrfs: fix snprintf usage by send's gen_unique_name btrfs: fix defrag 32-bit integer overflow btrfs: sysfs: list the NO_HOLES feature btrfs: sysfs: don't show reserved incompat feature btrfs: call permission checks earlier in ioctls and return EPERM ...
2014-01-28kobject: export kobj_sysfs_opsJeff Mahoney1-0/+1
struct kobj_attribute implements the baseline attribute functionality that can be used all over the place. We should export the ops associated with it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-08kobject: Fix source code comment spellingBart Van Assche1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-04Revert "kobject: introduce kobj_completion"Greg Kroah-Hartman1-50/+0
This reverts commit eee031649707db3c9920d9498f8d03819b74fc23. Jeff writes: I have no objections to reverting it. There were concerns from Al Viro that it'd be tough to get right by callers and I had assumed it got dropped after that. I had planned on using it in my btrfs sysfs exports patchset but came up with a better way. Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-11kernfs: s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename its friends accordinglyTejun Heo1-1/+1
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in full conflict mode. Nothing can make the situation any worse. Let's take the chance to name things properly. This patch performs the following renames. * s/sysfs_elem_dir/kernfs_elem_dir/ * s/sysfs_elem_symlink/kernfs_elem_symlink/ * s/sysfs_elem_attr/kernfs_elem_file/ * s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ * s/sd/kn/ in kernfs proper * s/parent_sd/parent/ * s/target_sd/target/ * s/dir_sd/parent/ * s/to_sysfs_dirent()/rb_to_kn()/ * misc renames of local vars when they conflict with the above Because md, mic and gpio dig into sysfs details, this patch ends up modifying them. All are sysfs_dirent renames and trivial. While we can avoid these by introducing a dummy wrapping struct sysfs_dirent around kernfs_node, given the limited usage outside kernfs and sysfs proper, I don't think such workaround is called for. This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any functional difference. - mic / gpio renames were missing. Spotted by kbuild test robot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08kobject: fix memory leak in kobject_set_name_vargsMaurizio Lombardi1-1/+3
If the call to kvasprintf fails then the old name of the object will be leaked, this patch fixes the bug by restoring the old name before returning ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-07kobject: remove kset from sysfs immediately in kset_unregister()Bjorn Helgaas1-0/+1
There's no "unlink from sysfs" interface for ksets, so I think callers of kset_unregister() expect the kset to be removed from sysfs immediately, without waiting for the last reference to be released. This patch makes the sysfs removal happen immediately, so the caller may create a new kset with the same name as soon as kset_unregister() returns. Without this, every caller has to call "kobject_del(&kset->kobj)" first unless it knows it will never create a new kset with the same name. This sometimes shows up on module unload and reload, where the reload fails because it tries to create a kobject with the same name as one from the original load that still exists. CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y makes this problem easier to hit. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-07kobject: delay kobject release for random timeBjorn Helgaas1-3/+6
When CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y, delay kobject release functions for a random time between 1 and 8 seconds, which effectively changes the order in which they're called. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs_create_dir[_ns]()Tejun Heo1-1/+1
Introduce kernfs interface to manipulate a directory which takes and returns sysfs_dirents. create_dir() is renamed to kernfs_create_dir_ns() and its argumantes and return value are updated. create_dir() usages are replaced with kernfs_create_dir_ns() and sysfs_create_subdir() usages are replaced with kernfs_create_dir(). Dup warnings are handled explicitly by sysfs users of the kernfs interface. sysfs_enable_ns() is renamed to kernfs_enable_ns(). This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes. v2: Dummy implementation for !CONFIG_SYSFS updated to return -ENOSYS. v3: kernfs_enable_ns() added. v4: Refreshed on top of "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling, take #2" so that this patch removes sysfs_enable_ns(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-27sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling, take #2Tejun Heo1-5/+22
The way namespace tags are implemented in sysfs is more complicated than necessary. As each tag is a pointer value and required to be non-NULL under a namespace enabled parent, there's no need to record separately what type each tag is. If multiple namespace types are needed, which currently aren't, we can simply compare the tag to a set of allowed tags in the superblock assuming that the tags, being pointers, won't have the same value across multiple types. This patch rips out kobj_ns_type handling from sysfs. sysfs now has an enable switch to turn on namespace under a node. If enabled, all children are required to have non-NULL namespace tags and filtered against the super_block's tag. kobject namespace determination is now performed in lib/kobject.c::create_dir() making sysfs_read_ns_type() unnecessary. The sanity checks are also moved. create_dir() is restructured to ease such addition. This removes most kobject namespace knowledge from sysfs proper which will enable proper separation and layering of sysfs. This is the second try. The first one was cb26a311578e ("sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling") which tried to automatically enable namespace if there are children with non-NULL namespace tags; however, it was broken for symlinks as they should inherit the target's tag iff namespace is enabled in the parent. This led to namespace filtering enabled incorrectly for wireless net class devices through phy80211 symlinks and thus network configuration failure. a1212d278c05 ("Revert "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling"") reverted the commit. This shouldn't introduce any behavior changes, for real. v2: Dummy implementation of sysfs_enable_ns() for !CONFIG_SYSFS was missing and caused build failure. Reported by kbuild test robot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-07Revert "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling"Linus Torvalds1-4/+1
This reverts commit cb26a311578e67769e92a39a0a63476533cb7e12. It mysteriously causes NetworkManager to not find the wireless device for me. As far as I can tell, Tejun *meant* for this commit to not make any semantic changes, but there clearly are some. So revert it, taking into account some of the calling convention changes that happened in this area in subsequent commits. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-11kobject: show debug info on delayed kobject releaseFengguang Wu1-1/+1
Useful for locating buggy drivers on kernel oops. It may add dozens of new lines to boot dmesg. DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is hopefully only enabled in debug kernels (like maybe the Fedora rawhide one, or at developers), so being a bit more verbose is likely ok. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-03kobject: grab an extra reference on kobject->sd to allow duplicate deletesTejun Heo1-0/+12
sysfs currently has a rather weird behavior regarding removals. A directory removal would delete all files directly under it but wouldn't recurse into subdirectories, which, while a bit inconsistent, seems to make sense at the first glance as each directory is supposedly associated with a kobject and each kobject can take care of the directory deletion; however, this doesn't really hold as we have groups which can be directories without a kobject associated with it and require explicit deletions. We're in the process of separating out sysfs from kboject / driver core and want a consistent behavior. A removal should delete either only the specified node or everything under it. I think it is helpful to support recursive atomic removal and later patches will implement it. Such change means that a sysfs_dirent associated with kobject may be deleted before the kobject itself is removed if one of its ancestor gets removed before it. As sysfs_remove_dir() puts the base ref, we may end up with dangling pointer on descendants. This can be solved by holding an extra reference on the sd from kobject. Acquire an extra reference on the associated sysfs_dirent on directory creation and put it after removal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-29Merge 3.12-rc3 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-4/+1
We want the driver core and sysfs fixes in here to make merges and development easier. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-27sysfs: Allow mounting without CONFIG_NETEric W. Biederman1-4/+1
In kobj_ns_current_may_mount the default should be to allow the mount. The test is only for a single kobj_ns_type at a time, and unless there is a reason to prevent it the mounting sysfs should be allowed. Subsystems that are not registered can't have are not involved so can't have a reason to prevent mounting sysfs. This is a bug-fix to commit 7dc5dbc879bd ("sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs") that came in via the userns tree during the 3.12 merge window. Reported-and-tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-26kobject: introduce kobj_completionJeff Mahoney1-0/+50
A common way to handle kobject lifetimes in embedded in objects with different lifetime rules is to pair the kobject with a struct completion. This introduces a kobj_completion structure that can be used in place of the pairing, along with several convenience functions for initialization, release, and put-and-wait. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handlingTejun Heo1-1/+4
The way namespace tags are implemented in sysfs is more complicated than necessary. As each tag is a pointer value and required to be non-NULL under a namespace enabled parent, there's no need to record separately what type each tag is or where namespace is enabled. If multiple namespace types are needed, which currently aren't, we can simply compare the tag to a set of allowed tags in the superblock assuming that the tags, being pointers, won't have the same value across multiple types. Also, whether to filter by namespace tag or not can be trivially determined by whether the node has any tagged children or not. This patch rips out kobj_ns_type handling from sysfs. sysfs no longer cares whether specific type of namespace is enabled or not. If a sysfs_dirent has a non-NULL tag, the parent is marked as needing namespace filtering and the value is tested against the allowed set of tags for the superblock (currently only one but increasing this number isn't difficult) and the sysfs_dirent is ignored if it doesn't match. This removes most kobject namespace knowledge from sysfs proper which will enable proper separation and layering of sysfs. The namespace sanity checks in fs/sysfs/dir.c are replaced by the new sanity check in kobject_namespace(). As this is the only place ktype->namespace() is called for sysfs, this doesn't weaken the sanity check significantly. I omitted converting the sanity check in sysfs_do_create_link_sd(). While the check can be shifted to upper layer, mistakes there are well contained and should be easily visible anyway. 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>
2013-09-26sysfs: remove ktype->namespace() invocations in directory codeTejun Heo1-4/+24
For some unrecognizable reason, namespace information is communicated to sysfs through ktype->namespace() callback when there's *nothing* which needs the use of a callback. The whole sequence of operations is completely synchronous and sysfs operations simply end up calling back into the layer which just invoked it in order to find out the namespace information, which is completely backwards, obfuscates what's going on and unnecessarily tangles two separate layers. This patch doesn't remove ktype->namespace() but shifts its handling to kobject layer. We probably want to get rid of the callback in the long term. This patch adds an explicit param to sysfs_{create|rename|move}_dir() and renames them to sysfs_{create|rename|move}_dir_ns(), respectively. ktype->namespace() invocations are moved to the calling sites of the above functions. A new helper kboject_namespace() is introduced which directly tests kobj_ns_type_operations->type which should give the same result as testing sysfs_fs_type(parent_sd) and returns @kobj's namespace tag as necessary. kobject_namespace() is extern as it will be used from another file in the following patches. This patch should be an equivalent conversion without any functional difference. 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>
2013-09-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull namespace changes from Eric Biederman: "This is an assorted mishmash of small cleanups, enhancements and bug fixes. The major theme is user namespace mount restrictions. nsown_capable is killed as it encourages not thinking about details that need to be considered. A very hard to hit pid namespace exiting bug was finally tracked and fixed. A couple of cleanups to the basic namespace infrastructure. Finally there is an enhancement that makes per user namespace capabilities usable as capabilities, and an enhancement that allows the per userns root to nice other processes in the user namespace" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace. namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on. pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt between namespaces kernel/nsproxy.c: Improving a snippet of code. proc: Restrict mounting the proc filesystem vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users
2013-08-28sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfsEric W. Biederman1-0/+15
Don't allow mounting sysfs unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights over the net namespace. The principle here is if you create or have capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live with what other people have mounted. Instead of testing this with a straight forward ns_capable call, perform this check the long and torturous way with kobject helpers, this keeps direct knowledge of namespaces out of sysfs, and preserves the existing sysfs abstractions. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-07-25kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy driversRussell King1-3/+19
Implement debugging for kobject release functions. kobjects are reference counted, so the drop of the last reference to them is not predictable. However, the common case is for the last reference to be the kobject's removal from a subsystem, which results in the release function being immediately called. This can hide subtle bugs, which can occur when another thread holds a reference to the kobject at the same time that a kobject is removed. This results in the release method being delayed. In order to make these kinds of problems more visible, the following patch implements a delayed release; this has the effect that the release function will be out of order with respect to the removal of the kobject in the same manner that it would be if a reference was being held. This provides us with an easy way to allow driver writers to debug their drivers and fix otherwise hidden problems. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-07kobject: sanitize argument for format stringKees Cook1-1/+1
Unlike kobject_set_name(), the kset_create_and_add() interface does not provide a way to use format strings, so make sure that the interface cannot be abused accidentally. It looks like all current callers use static strings, so there's no existing flaw. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-05-07kref: minor cleanupAnatol Pomozov1-1/+1
- make warning smp-safe - result of atomic _unless_zero functions should be checked by caller to avoid use-after-free error - trivial whitespace fix. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/391 Tested: compile x86, boot machine and run xfstests Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> [ Removed line-break, changed to use WARN_ON_ONCE() - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-13kobject: fix kset_find_obj() race with concurrent last kobject_put()Linus Torvalds1-1/+8
Anatol Pomozov identified a race condition that hits module unloading and re-loading. To quote Anatol: "This is a race codition that exists between kset_find_obj() and kobject_put(). kset_find_obj() might return kobject that has refcount equal to 0 if this kobject is freeing by kobject_put() in other thread. Here is timeline for the crash in case if kset_find_obj() searches for an object tht nobody holds and other thread is doing kobject_put() on the same kobject: THREAD A (calls kset_find_obj()) THREAD B (calls kobject_put()) splin_lock() atomic_dec_return(kobj->kref), counter gets zero here ... starts kobject cleanup .... spin_lock() // WAIT thread A in kobj_kset_leave() iterate over kset->list atomic_inc(kobj->kref) (counter becomes 1) spin_unlock() spin_lock() // taken // it does not know that thread A increased counter so it remove obj from list spin_unlock() vfree(module) // frees module object with containing kobj // kobj points to freed memory area!! kobject_put(kobj) // OOPS!!!! The race above happens because module.c tries to use kset_find_obj() when somebody unloads module. The module.c code was introduced in commit 6494a93d55fa" Anatol supplied a patch specific for module.c that worked around the problem by simply not using kset_find_obj() at all, but rather than make a local band-aid, this just fixes kset_find_obj() to be thread-safe using the proper model of refusing the get a new reference if the refcount has already dropped to zero. See examples of this proper refcount handling not only in the kref documentation, but in various other equivalent uses of this pattern by grepping for atomic_inc_not_zero(). [ Side note: the module race does indicate that module loading and unloading is not properly serialized wrt sysfs information using the module mutex. That may require further thought, but this is the correct fix at the kobject layer regardless. ] Reported-analyzed-and-tested-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-07kobject: fix the uncorrect commentZhi Yong Wu1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-02Merge 3.4-rc5 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-7/+7
This was done to resolve a merge issue with the init/main.c file. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-23lib/kobject.c : Remove redundant check in create_diryan1-7/+5
create_dir is a static function used only in kobject_add_internal. There's no need to do check here, for kobject_add_internal will reject kobject with invalid name. Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-10kobject: provide more diagnostic info for kobject_add_internal() failuresDan Williams1-7/+7
1/ convert open-coded KERN_ERR+dump_stack() to WARN(), so that automated tools pick up this warning. 2/ include the 'child' and 'parent' kobject names. This information was useful for tracking down the case where scsi invoked device_del() on a parent object and subsequently invoked device_add() on a child. Now the warning looks like: kobject_add_internal failed for target8:0:16 (error: -2 parent: end_device-8:0:24) Pid: 2942, comm: scsi_scan_8 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-isci+ #2 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8125e551>] kobject_add_internal+0x1c1/0x1f3 [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff8125e659>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff8125e723>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [<ffffffff8131124b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a [<ffffffff8125e0ef>] ? kobject_put+0x4c/0x50 [<ffffffff8132f370>] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a [<ffffffff8132dce3>] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-07lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker1-1/+1
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-21kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()Kay Sievers1-37/+0
Now that there are no in-kernel users of this function, remove it as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-12Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to itAl Viro1-17/+9
* new refcount in struct net, controlling actual freeing of the memory * new method in kobj_ns_type_operations (->drop_ns()) * ->current_ns() semantics change - it's supposed to be followed by corresponding ->drop_ns(). For struct net in case of CONFIG_NET_NS it bumps the new refcount; net_drop_ns() decrements it and calls net_free() if the last reference has been dropped. Method renamed to ->grab_current_ns(). * old net_free() callers call net_drop_ns() instead. * sysfs_exit_ns() is gone, along with a large part of callchain leading to it; now that the references stored in ->ns[...] stay valid we do not need to hunt them down and replace them with NULL. That fixes problems in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_readdir(), along with getting rid of sb->s_instances abuse. Note that struct net *shutdown* logics has not changed - net_cleanup() is called exactly when it used to be called. The only thing postponed by having a sysfs instance refering to that struct net is actual freeing of memory occupied by struct net. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-22kobject: Introduce kset_find_obj_hinted.Robin Holt1-0/+39
One call chain getting to kset_find_obj is: link_mem_sections() find_mem_section() kset_find_obj() This is done during boot. The memory sections were added in a linearly increasing order and link_mem_sections tends to utilize them in that same linear order. Introduce a kset_find_obj_hinted which is passed the result of the previous kset_find_obj which it uses for a quick "is the next object our desired object" check before falling back to the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> To: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logicSerge E. Hallyn1-0/+11
Add some in-line comments to explain the new infrastructure, which was introduced to support sysfs directory tagging with namespaces. I think an overall description someplace might be good too, but it didn't really seem to fit into Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt, which appears more geared toward users, rather than maintainers, of sysfs. (Tejun, please let me know if I can make anything clearer or failed altogether to comment something that should be commented.) Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.Eric W. Biederman1-0/+1
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>
2010-05-21kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with namespaces.Eric W. Biederman1-0/+103
Move complete knowledge of namespaces into the kobject layer so we can use that information when reporting kobjects to userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy1-1/+1
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>
2010-03-07kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_opsEmese Revfy1-2/+2
Constify struct kset_uevent_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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15kobject: make kset_create check kobject_set_name return valueDave Young1-1/+6
kset_create should check the kobject_set_name return value. Add the return value checking code. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-20driver: dont update dev_name via device_add pathKay Sievers1-0/+3
notice one system /proc/iomem some entries missed the name for pci_devices it turns that dev->dev.kobj name is changed after device_add. for pci code: via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.add (aka acpi_pci_root_add) ==> pci_acpi_scan_root is used to scan pci bus/device, and at the same time we read the resource for pci_dev in the pci_read_bases, we have res->name = pci_name(pci_dev); pci_name is calling dev_name. later via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.start (aka acpi_pci_root_start) ==> pci_bus_add_device to add all pci_dev in kobj tree. pci_bus_add_device will call device_add. actually in device_add /* first, register with generic layer. */ error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev)); if (error) goto Error; will get one new name for that kobj, old name is freed. [Impact: fix corrupted names in /proc/iomem ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-24driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string arrayKay Sievers1-1/+1
Now that all users of bus_id is gone, we can remove it from struct device. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman1-2/+15
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>
2008-10-16kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman1-13/+5
When looking at kobject_rename I found two bugs with that exist when sysfs support is disabled in the kernel. kobject_rename does not change the name on the kobject when sysfs support is not compiled in. kobject_rename without locking attempts to check the validity of a rename operation, which the kobject layer simply does not have the infrastructure to do. This patch documents the previously unstated requirement of kobject_rename that is the responsibility of the caller to provide mutual exclusion and to be certain that the new_name for the kobject is valid. This patch modifies sysfs_rename_dir in !CONFIG_SYSFS case to call kobject_set_name to actually change the kobject_name. This patch removes the bogus and misleading check in kobject_rename that attempts to see if a rename is valid. The check is bogus because we do not have the proper locking. The check is misleading because it looks like we can and do perform checking at the kobject level that we don't. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-08-21kobject: Replace ALL occurrences of '/' with '!' instead of only the first one.Ingo Oeser1-2/+1
A recent patch from Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> replaced the first occurrence of '/' with '!' as needed for block devices. Now do some cheap defensive coding and replace all of them to avoid future issues in this area. Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-25Example use of WARN()Arjan van de Ven1-6/+3
Now that WARN() exists, we can fold some of the printk's into it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-21kobject: replace '/' with '!' in nameKay Sievers1-2/+8
Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it from the block class. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-10PCI: ACPI PCI slot detection driverAlex Chiang1-0/+1
Detect all physical PCI slots as described by ACPI, and create entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/. Not all physical slots are hotpluggable, and the acpiphp module does not detect them. Now we know the physical PCI geography of our system, without caring about hotplug. [kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com: export-kobject_rename-for-pci_hotplug_core] Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_DMI=n] Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Acked-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-04-30kobject: do not copy vargs, just pass them aroundKay Sievers1-20/+8
This prevents a few unneeded copies. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30lib: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison1-8/+8
__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>
2008-04-19Kobject: Replace list_for_each() with list_for_each_entry().Robert P. J. Day1-8/+2
Use the more concise list_for_each_entry(), which allows for the deletion of the to_kobj() routine at the same time. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19kobject: catch kobjects that are not initializedGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+8
Add warnings to kobject_put() to catch kobjects that are cleaned up but were never initialized to begin with. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-04kobject: properly initialize ksetsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-6/+5
kset_initialize was calling kobject_init_internal() which didn't initialize the kobject as well as kobject_init() was. So have kobject_init() call kobject_init_internal() and move the logic to initalize the kobject there. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-02kobject: kerneldoc comment fixDave Young1-1/+1
Fix kerneldoc comment of kobject_create. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c filesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-75/+64
Clean up the kobject.c and kobject_uevent.c files to follow the proper coding style rules. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject namesKay Sievers1-9/+5
All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_unregister() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-17/+0
There are no in-kernel users of kobject_unregister() so it should be removed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+2
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with kobject_put(). Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unrefKay Sievers1-74/+96
We save the current state in the object itself, so we can do proper cleanup when the last reference is dropped. If the initial reference is dropped, the object will be removed from sysfs if needed, if an "add" event was sent, "remove" will be send, and the allocated resources are released. This allows us to clean up some driver core usage as well as allowing us to do other such changes to the rest of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kset: remove kset_add functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-12/+1
No one is calling this anymore, so just remove it and hard-code the one internal-use of it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_register()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-18/+0
The function is no longer used by anyone in the kernel, and it prevents the proper sending of the kobject uevent after the needed files are set up by the caller. kobject_init_and_add() can be used in its place. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-7/+7
Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_init() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-8/+3
The old kobject_init() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it, but that can be cleaned up later very simply.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-7/+7
Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_add() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-14/+8
The old kobject_add() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it, but that can be cleaned up later very simply.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: drop child->parent ref at unregistrationAlan Stern1-3/+4
This patch (as1015) reverts changes that were made to the driver core about four years ago. The intent back then was to avoid certain kinds of invalid memory accesses by leaving kernel objects allocated as long as any of their children were still allocated. The original and correct approach was to wait only as long as any children were still _registered_; that's what this patch reinstates. This fixes a problem in the SCSI core made visible by the class_device to regular device conversion: A reference loop (scsi_device holds reference to request_queue, which is the child of a gendisk, which is the child of the scsi_device) prevents the data structures from being released, even though they are deregistered okay. It's possible that this change will cause a few bugs to surface, things that have been hidden for several years. They can be fixed easily enough by having the child device take an explicit reference to the parent whenever needed. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: clean up debugging messagesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-8/+15
The kobject debugging messages are a mess. This provides a unified message that makes them actually useful. The format for new kobject debug messages should be: kobject: 'KOBJECT_NAME' (ADDRESS): FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: grab the kset reference in kobject_add, not kobject_initGreg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+3
kobject_init should not be grabing any references, but only initializing the object. This patch fixes this, and makes the lock hold-time shorter for when a kset is present in the kobject. The current kernel tree has been audited to verify that this change should be safe. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove subsystem_(un)register functionsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-13/+0
These functions are no longer used and are the last remants of the old subsystem crap. So delete them for good. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver Core: kill subsys_attribute and default sysfs opsKay Sievers1-21/+0
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>
2008-01-24Driver Core: switch all dynamic ksets to kobj_sysfs_opsKay Sievers1-4/+6
Switch all dynamically created ksets, that export simple attributes, to kobj_attribute from subsys_attribute. Struct subsys_attribute will be removed. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver Core: add kobj_attribute handlingKay Sievers1-0/+29
Add kobj_sysfs_ops to replace subsys_sysfs_ops. There is no need for special kset operations, we want to be able to use simple attribute operations at any kobject, not only ksets. The whole concept of any default sysfs attribute operations will go away with the upcoming removal of subsys_sysfs_ops. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: get rid of kobject_kset_add_dirGreg Kroah-Hartman1-32/+5
kobject_kset_add_dir is only called in one place so remove it and use kobject_create() instead. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: get rid of kobject_add_dirGreg Kroah-Hartman1-12/+0
kobject_create_and_add is the same as kobject_add_dir, so drop kobject_add_dir. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: add kobject_create_and_add functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-18/+63
This lets users create dynamic kobjects much easier. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: add kset_create_and_add functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+91
Now ksets can be dynamically created on the fly, no static definitions are required. Thanks to Miklos for hints on how to make this work better for the callers. And thanks to Kay for finding some stupid bugs in my original version and pointing out that we need to handle the fact that kobject's can have a kset as a parent and to handle that properly in kobject_add(). Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: add kobject_init_and_add functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+27
Also add a kobject_init_and_add function which bundles up what a lot of the current callers want to do all at once, and it properly handles the memory usages, unlike kobject_register(); Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: add kobject_add_ng functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+66
This is what the kobject_add function is going to become. Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: add kobject_init_ng functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+42
This is what the kobject_init function is going to become. Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: make kobject_cleanup be staticGreg Kroah-Hartman1-5/+4
No one except the kobject core calls it so make the function static. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: fix up kobject_set_name to use kvasprintfGreg Kroah-Hartman1-39/+32
Kay pointed out that kobject_set_name was being very stupid, doing two allocations for every call, when it should just be using the kernel function kvasprintf() instead. This change adds the internal kobject_set_name_vargs() function, which other follow-on patches will be using. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove incorrect comment in kobject_renameGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+0
As pointed out by Kay. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17kobject: fix the documentation of how kobject_set_name worksGreg Kroah-Hartman1-6/+6
Thanks to Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> for pointing out that I forgot to update the comment when I rewrote kobject_set_name. Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28kobject: two typo fixesJohannes Berg1-2/+2
This fixes two typos from commit 34358c26a2c96b2a068dc44e0ac602106a466bce. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-30kobject: check for duplicate names in kobject_renameGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+13
This should catch any duplicate names before we try to tell sysfs to rename the object. This happens a lot with older versions of udev and the network rename scripts. Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12kobject: update the copyrightsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+2
I've been hacking on these files for a while now, might as well make it official... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12driver core: remove subsystem_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-5/+0
There is only one user of it, and it is only a wrapper for kset_init(). Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_direntTejun Heo1-1/+0
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>
2007-10-12sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory supportEric W. Biederman1-38/+6
While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories dynamically coming and going. Which can now occur for directories containing network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set. This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher level. So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from commit b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 is now gone. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12kobject: remove the static array for the nameGreg Kroah-Hartman1-40/+39
Due to historical reasons, struct kobject contained a static array for the name, and a dynamic pointer in case the name got bigger than the array. That's just dumb, as people didn't always know which variable to reference, even with the accessor for the kobject name. This patch removes the static array, potentially saving a lot of memory as the majority of kobjects do not have a very long name. Thanks to Kay for the idea to do this. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_get()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and the only two users, which are in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and the only two users, which are in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentryTejun Heo1-5/+5
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>
2007-07-11Driver core: add missing kset ueventKay Sievers1-1/+8
We get uevents for a bus/class going away, but not one registering. Add the missing uevent in kset_register(), which will send an event for a new bus/class. Suppress all unwanted uevents for bus subdirectories like /bus/*/devices/, /bus/*/drivers/. Now we get for module usbcore: add /module/usbcore (module) add /bus/usb (bus) add /class/usb_host (class) add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) remove /class/usb_host (class) remove /bus/usb (bus) remove /module/usbcore (module) instead of: add /module/usbcore (module) add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) remove /class/usb_host (class) remove /bus/usb/drivers (bus) remove /bus/usb/devices (bus) remove /bus/usb (bus) remove /module/usbcore (module) Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08kobject: use the proper printk level for kobject errorGreg Kroah-Hartman1-5/+5
Thanks to Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> for pointing it out to me. Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman1-61/+8
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>
2007-04-27kobject: Comment and warning fixes to kobject.cEric W. Biederman1-3/+10
This dots some i's and crosses some t's after left over from when kobject_kset_add_dir was built from kobject_add_dir. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystemGreg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+1
It isn't used at all by the driver core anymore, and the few usages of it within the kernel have now all been fixed as most of them were using it incorrectly. So remove it. Now the whole struct subsys can be removed from the system, but that's for a later patch... Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27kobject: kobject_add() reference leakCornelia Huck1-0/+1
We leak a reference if we attempt to add a kobject with no name. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: notify userspace of network device renamesJean Tourrilhes1-0/+30
Provide rename event for when we rename network devices. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27kobject: kobject_shadow_add cleanupDmitriy Monakhov1-2/+2
- correct function name in comments - parrent assignment does metter only inside "if" block, so move it inside this block. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classesKay Sievers1-2/+10
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories belonging to this class - merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic. - removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class leaves the directory. There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed to work with network and sound modules. :) From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-03-09kobject: new_device->kref wasn't putted after error in kobject_move()Dmitriy Monakhov1-0/+2
If error happen we jump to "out" label, in this case new_device not yet became the parent but it wasn't putted. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-19Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: PCI: Make PCI device numa-node attribute visible in sysfs PCI: add systems for automatic breadth-first device sorting PCI: PCI devices get assigned redundant IRQs PCI: Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE boot options PCI: pci.txt fix __devexit() usage PCI/sysfs/kobject kernel-doc fixes
2007-02-16PCI/sysfs/kobject kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap1-0/+1
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>
2007-02-16kobject: kobj->k_name verification fixMartin Stoilov1-1/+1
The function 'kobject_add' tries to verify the name of a new kobject instance is properly set before continuing. if (!kobj->k_name) kobj->k_name = kobj->name; if (!kobj->k_name) { pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n"); WARN_ON(1); return -EINVAL; } The statement: if (!kobj->k_name) { pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n"); WARN_ON(1); return -EINVAL; } is useless the way it is right now, because it can never be true. I think the code was intended to be: if (!kobj->k_name) kobj->k_name = kobj->name; if (!*kobj->k_name) { pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n"); WARN_ON(1); return -EINVAL; } because this would make sure the kobj->name buffer has something in it. So the missing '*' is just a typo. Although, I would much prefer expression like: if (*kobj->k_name == '\0') { pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n"); WARN_ON(1); return -EINVAL; } because this would've made the intention clear, in this patch I just restore the missing '*' without changing the coding style of the function. Signed-off-by: Martin Stoilov <mstoilov@odesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day1-2/+3
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in source files, including: * make multi-line initial descriptions single line * denote some function names, constants and structs as such * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places * reword some text for clarity Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-07sysfs: Shadow directory supportEric W. Biederman1-5/+37
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/*. What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net. I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect lookups to the real directory you want. Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit trickier. I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really at that location the shadow master. The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07kobject: kobject_put cleanupMariusz Kozlowski1-4/+2
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>
2007-02-07driver core: Allow device_move(dev, NULL).Cornelia Huck1-3/+3
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was newly registered: - Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code, setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit. - kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject. - sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07Kobject: make kobject apis more robust in handling NULL pointersGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+19
It should be ok to pass in NULL for some kobject functions, so add error checking for all exported kobject functions to be more robust. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] kernel core: replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocBurman Yan1-2/+1
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-01driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.Cornelia Huck1-0/+50
Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-11Input: add missing exports to fix modular buildDmitry Torokhov1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-09-25kobject: must_check fixesRandy Dunlap1-1/+8
Check all __must_check warnings in lib/kobject.c Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21[PATCH] kobject: make people pay attention to kobject_add errorsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+3
These really need to be fixed, shout it out to the world. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-05-21[PATCH] kobject: quiet errors in kobject_addGreg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+3
People don't like released kernels yelling at them, no matter how real the error might be. So only report it if CONFIG_KOBJECT_DEBUG is enabled. Sent on request of Andrew Morton. (akpm: should bring this back post-2.6.17) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-27[PATCH] Kobject: possible cleanupsAdrian Bunk1-5/+2
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - #if 0 the following unused global function: - subsys_remove_file() - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - kset_find_obj - subsystem_init - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL: - kobject_add_dir Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollableNeilBrown1-0/+1
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>
2006-03-20[PATCH] kobject_add_dirJun'ichi Nomura1-0/+38
Adding kobject_add_dir() function which creates a subdirectory for a given kobject. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Kobject: provide better warning messages when people do stupid thingsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-8/+14
Now that kobject_add() is used more than kobject_register() the kernel wasn't always letting people know that they were doing something wrong. This change fixes this. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-06[PATCH] kobject: don't oops on null kobject.nameChuck Ebbert1-0/+4
kobject_get_path() will oops if one of the component names is NULL. Fix that by returning NULL instead of oopsing. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-06[PATCH] kobject_add() must have a valid name in order to succeed.Greg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+5
So we might as well check to verify this, and let the user know that something is wrong if they didn't do it correctly, instead of oopsing later on in kobject_get_name() or somewhere else. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers1-2/+2
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-30[PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau1-0/+1
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] gfp_t: lib/*Al Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] Make kobject's name be const char *Dmitry Torokhov1-1/+1
kobject: make kobject's name const char * since users should not attempt to change it (except by calling kobject_rename). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz1-2/+1
Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-18[PATCH] kobject/hotplug split - kobject add/removekay.sievers@vrfy.org1-4/+3
kobject_add() and kobject_del() don't emit hotplug events anymore. The user should do it itself if it has finished populating the device directory. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+544
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!