At present, the handling of GUIDs in efivar file names isn't consistent.
We use GUID_LEN in some places, and 38 in others (GUID_LEN plus
separator), and implicitly use the presence of the trailing NUL.
This change removes the trailing NUL from GUID_LEN, so that we're
explicitly adding it when required. We also replace magic numbers
with GUID_LEN, and clarify the comments where appropriate.
We also fix the allocation size in efivar_create_sysfs_entry, where
we're allocating one byte too much, due to counting the trailing NUL
twice - once when calculating short_name_size, and once in the kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Currently, efivarfs does not enforce exclusion over the get_variable and
set_variable operations. Section 7.1 of UEFI requires us to only allow a
single processor to enter {get,set}_variable services at once.
This change acquires the efivars->lock over calls to these operations
from the efivarfs paths.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Ensure we free both the name and inode on error when building the
individual variables.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
d_alloc_name() copies the passed name to new storage, once complete we
no longer need our name.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
When d_make_root() fails it will automatically drop the reference
on the root inode. We should not be doing so as well.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
UEFI variable filesystem need a new mount point, so this patch add
efivars kobject to efi_kobj for create a /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
folder.
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
A write to an efivarfs file will not always result in a variable of
'count' size after the EFI SetVariable() call. We may have appended to
the existing data (ie, with the EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE attribute), or
even have deleted the variable (with an authenticated variable update,
with a zero datasize).
This change re-reads the updated variable from firmware, to check for
size changes and deletions. In the latter case, we need to drop the
dentry.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
The existing EFI variables code only supports variables of up to 1024
bytes. This limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification,
but was removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be
larger than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this. So,
instead, let's add a filesystem. Variables can be read, written and
created, with the first 4 bytes of each variable representing its UEFI
attributes. The create() method doesn't actually commit to flash since
zero-length variables can't exist per-spec.
Updates from Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Some of the EFI variable attributes are missing from print out from
/sys/firmware/efi/vars/*/attributes. This patch adds those in. It also
updates code to use pre-defined constants for masking current value
of attributes.
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Ben Hutchings pointed out that the validation in efivars was inadequate -
most obviously, an entry with size 0 would server as a DoS against the
kernel. Improve this based on his suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A common flaw in UEFI systems is a refusal to POST triggered by a malformed
boot variable. Once in this state, machines may only be restored by
reflashing their firmware with an external hardware device. While this is
obviously a firmware bug, the serious nature of the outcome suggests that
operating systems should filter their variable writes in order to prevent
a malicious user from rendering the machine unusable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the case where CONFIG_PSTORE=n, the function efi_pstore_read() doesn't
have the correct list of parameters. This patch provides a definition
of efi_pstore_read() with 'char **buf' added to fix this warning:
"drivers/firmware/efivars.c:609: warning: initialization from".
problem introduced in commit f6f8285132
Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore
reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has
no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details.
Drop pstore_write() as it has no users, and handling the "reason" here
has no obviously correct value.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend
pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following
backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends
that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path.
To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close
loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend.
Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is
called in the middle of the read path.
[ 59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847
[ 59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount
[ 59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1
[ 59.691019] Call Trace:
[ 59.691019] [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca
[ 59.691019] [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3
[ 59.691019] [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4
[ 59.691019] [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64
[ 59.691019] [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43
[ 59.691019] [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98
[ 59.691019] [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f
[ 59.691019] [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1
[ 59.691019] [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158
[ 59.691019] [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c
[ 59.691019] [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0
[ 59.691019] [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27
[ 59.691019] [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
[ 59.691019] [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7
[ 59.691019] [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91
[ 59.691019] [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82
[ 59.691019] [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17
[ 59.691019] [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98
[ 59.691019] [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d
[ 59.691019] [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a
[ 59.691019] [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d
[ 59.691019] [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2
[ 59.691019] [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a
[ 59.691019] [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f
[ 59.691019] [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99
[ 59.691019] [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Currently pstore write interface employs record id as return
value, but it is not enough because it can't tell caller if
the write operation is successful. Pass the record id back via
an argument pointer and return zero for success, non-zero for
failure.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
backend plug-ins. This causes problems when pstore is executed in
an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().
This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
see if we are in an NMI context. If we are in an NMI and can't get the
lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.
All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.
Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c:161: warning: ‘utf16_strlen’ defined but not used
utf16_strlen() is only used inside CONFIG_PSTORE - make this "static inline"
to shut the compiler up [thanks to hpa for the suggestion].
drivers/firmware/efivars.c:602: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Between v1 and v2 of this patch series we decided to make the "part" number
unsigned - but missed fixing the stub version of efi_pstore_write()
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Consolidate the attributes listed for pstore operations in one place,
PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Instead of open-coding the string operations for comparing the prefix of
the variable names, use the provided utf16_* string functions.
This patch also changes the calls to efi.set_variable to
efivars->ops->set_variable so that the right function gets called in the
case of gsmi (which doesn't have a valid efi structure).
As well, make sure that we only consider variables with the right vendor
string.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Introduce utf16_strncmp which is used in the next patch. Semantics
should be the same as the strncmp C function.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Fix the string functions in the efivars driver to be called utf16_*
instead of utf8_* as the encoding is utf16, not utf8.
As well, rename utf16_strlen to utf16_strnlen as it takes a maxlength
argument and the name should be consistent with the standard C function
names. utf16_strlen is still provided for convenience in a subsequent
patch.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
EFI provides an area of nonvolatile storage managed by the firmware. We
can use this as a pstore backend to maintain copies of oopses, aiding
diagnosis.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
treewide: fix a few typos in comments
regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
treewide: remove extra semicolons
...
We should unwind and return an error if register_efivars() fails.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a cut and paste bug. We intended to free ->del_var and
->new_var but we only free ->new_var.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Instead of letting efivars access struct efi directly when dealing with
variables, use an operations structure. This allows a later change to
reuse the efivars logic without having to pretend to support everything
in struct efi.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In anticipation of re-using the variable facilities in efivars from
elsewhere, split out the registration and unregistration of struct
efivars from the rest of the EFI specific sysfs code.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Now that we all global variable state is encapsulated by struct efivars,
parameterize all functions to the efivars local to the control flow rather
than at file scope. We do this by removing the variable "efivars" at file
scope and move its storage down to the end of the file.
Variables get at efivars by storing the efivars pointer within each
efivar_entry. The "new_var" and "del_var" binary attribute files get at
the efivars through the private pointer.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In preparation for encapsulating efivars, we need to have the
bin_attributes be dynamically allocated so that we can use their
->private fields to get back to the struct efivars structure.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In preparation for abstracting out efivars to be usable by other similar
variable services, move the global lock, list and kset into a structure.
Later patches will change the scope of 'efivars' and have it be passed
by function argument.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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>
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>
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Using a kset for this simple directory is an overkill.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no firmware "subsystem" it's just a directory in /sys that
other portions of the kernel want to hook into. So make it a kobject
not a kset to help alivate anyone who tries to do some odd kset-like
things with this.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This cleans up a lot of code and gets rid of a unneeded macro, and gets
us one step closer to deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These files should not be "normal" sysfs files as they really are binary
ones. This patch makes them binary files and saves code in doing so.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.
This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.
Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
<hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up
the ktype mess.
Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
Jeremy Kerr
Andy Whitcroft
Lee, Chun-Yi
Matthew Garrett
Khalid Aziz
Linus Torvalds
Christoph Fritz
Kees Cook
Chen Gong
Don Zickus
Tony Luck
Mike Waychison
Justin P. Mattock
Randy Dunlap
Dan Carpenter
Chris Wright
Tejun Heo
Emese Revfy
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Tejun Heo