This patch (as1509) documents two important points regarding the use
of device structures in the driver model:
Structures must be initialized to all 0's before they are
passed to device_initialize().
Structures must not be passed to device_add() or
device_register() more than once.
Although these restrictions have applied ever since the driver model
was first created, they have not been mentioned anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
vfs: count unlinked inodes
vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
vfs: trim includes a bit
switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
vfs: move mnt_devname
vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
...
This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file,
and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
file, that the merge did not catch.
The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell
<sfr@canb.auug.org.au> who was invaluable in the merge issues involved
with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
both callers of device_get_devnode() are only interested in lower 16bits
and nobody tries to return anything wider than 16bit anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
All sysdev classes and sysdev devices will converted to regular devices
and buses to properly hook userspace into the event processing.
There is no interesting difference between a 'sysdev' and 'device' which
would justify to roll an entire own subsystem with different userspace
export semantics. Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem
infrastructure from sysdev devices, which are currently not properly
available.
Every converted sysdev class will create a regular device with the class
name in /sys/devices/system and all registered devices will becom a children
of theses devices.
For compatibility reasons, the sysdev class-wide attributes are created
at this parent device. (Do not copy that logic for anything new, subsystem-
wide properties belong to the subsystem, not to some fake parent device
created in /sys/devices.)
Every sysdev driver is implemented as a simple subsystem interface now,
and no longer called a driver.
After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Disabling all runtime PM during system shutdown turns out not to be a
good idea, because some devices may need to be woken up from a
low-power state at that time.
The whole point of disabling runtime PM for system shutdown was to
prevent untimely runtime-suspend method calls. This patch (as1504)
accomplishes the same result by incrementing the usage count for each
device and waiting for ongoing runtime-PM callbacks to finish. This
is what we already do during system suspend and hibernation, which
makes sense since the shutdown method is pretty much a legacy analog
of the pm->poweroff method.
This fixes a recent regression on some OMAP systems introduced by
commit af8db1508f (PM / driver core:
disable device's runtime PM during shutdown).
Reported-and-tested-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
There may be an issue when the user issue "reboot/shutdown" command, then
the device has shut down its hardware, after that, this runtime-pm featured
device's driver will probably be scheduled to do its suspend routine,
and at its suspend routine, it may access hardware, but the device has
already shutdown physically, then the system hang may be occurred.
I ran out this issue using an auto-suspend supported USB devices, like
3G modem, keyboard. The usb runtime suspend routine may be scheduled
after the usb controller has been shut down, and the usb runtime suspend
routine will try to suspend its roothub(controller), it will access
register, then the system hang occurs as the controller is shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Unlike dynamic_pr_debug, dynamic uses of dev_dbg can not
currently add task_pid/KBUILD_MODNAME/__func__/__LINE__
to selected debug output.
Add a new function similar to dynamic_pr_debug to
optionally emit these prefixes.
Cc: Aloisio Almeida <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org>
Noticed-by: Aloisio Almeida <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The device_type structure does not contain data that changes
during usage and should be const. This allows devices to declare
the struct const.
I have patches to change all the subsystems, but need the infra
structure change first.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The original macro worked only when applied to variables named 'dev'.
While this could have been fixed by simply renaming the macro argument,
a more type-safe replacement by an inline function is preferred.
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add text, courtesy of Kay Sievers, that provides some background on
device_rename() and why it shouldn't be used.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking
sysfs: remove useless test from sysfs_merge_group
driver-core: merge private parts of class and bus
driver core: fix whitespace in class_attr_string
Added dev_bin_attrs to struct class similar to existing dev_attrs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Document that device_rename() is not to be used by anything
other than the network core.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As classes and busses are pretty much the same thing, and we want to
merge them together into a 'subsystem' in the future, let us share the
same private data parts to make that merge easier.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix build errors when CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:
drivers/base/core.c: In function 'get_device_parent':
drivers/base/core.c:634: error: 'block_class' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/base/core.c: In function 'device_add_class_symlinks':
drivers/base/core.c:723: error: 'block_class' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/base/core.c: In function 'device_remove_class_symlinks':
drivers/base/core.c:751: error: 'block_class' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.
The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.
Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.
v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch removes the old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 config option,
but it keeps the logic around to handle block devices in the old manner
as some people like to run new kernel versions on old (pre 2007/2008)
distros.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
To avoid more patches, I also fixed other spelling
and grammar bugs when they were in the same or
following line:
successfull -> successful
parse -> parses
controler -> controller
controlers -> controllers
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The new_name argument to device_rename() can be
const as kobject_rename's new_name argument is.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits)
phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support
igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init
e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579
hso: Add new product ID
can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device
l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace
can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling
Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue"
net: cleanup inclusion
phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support
u32: negative offset fix
net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev"
igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X
ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0
e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case
e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation
ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice
net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams
cxgb4: update driver version
cxgb4: add new PCI IDs
...
Manually fix up conflicts in:
- drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration
infrastructure changes
- drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support
and cleaning up the IDs
- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req
conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
This fixes the regression in 2.6.35-rcX where bluetooth network devices
would fail to be deleted from sysfs, causing their destruction and
recreation to fail. In addition this fixes the mac80211_hwsim driver
where it would leave around sysfs files when the driver was removed.
This problem is discussed at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16257
The reason for the regression is that the network namespace support
added to sysfs expects and requires that network devices be put in
directories that can contain only network devices.
Today get_device_parent almost provides that guarantee for all class
devices, except for a specific exception when the parent of a class
devices is a class device. It would be nice to simply remove that
arguably incorrect special case, but apparently the input devices depend
on it being there. So I have only removed it for class devices with
network namespace support. Which today are the network devices.
It has been suggested that a better fix would be to change the parent
device from a class device to a bus device, which in the case of the
bluetooth driver would change /sys/class/bluetooth to /sys/bus/bluetoth,
I can not see how we would avoid significant userspace breakage if we
were to make that change.
Adding an extra directory in the path to the device will also be
userspace visible but it is much less likely to break things.
Everything is still accessible from /sys/class (for example), and it
fixes two bugs. Adding an extra directory fixes a 3 year old regression
introduced with the new sysfs layout that makes it impossible to rename
bnep0 network devices to names that conflict with hci device attributes
like hci_revsion. Adding an additional directory removes the new
failure modes introduced by the network namespace code.
If it weren't for the regession in the renaming of network devices I
would figure out how to just make the sysfs code deal with this
configuration of devices.
In summary this patch fixes regressions by changing:
"/sys/class/bluetooth/hci0/bnep0" to "/sys/class/bluetooth/hci0/net/bnep0".
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@tis.icnet.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reduces an x86 defconfig text and data ~55k, .6% smaller.
$ size vmlinux*
text data bss dec hex filename
7205273 716016 1366288 9287577 8db799 vmlinux
7258890 719768 1366288 9344946 8e97b2 vmlinux.master
Uses %pV and struct va_format
Format arguments are verified before printk
The dev_info macro is converted to _dev_info because there are
existing uses of variables named dev_info in the kernel tree
like drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c
A dev_info macro is created to call _dev_info
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In this code section the final S of CONFIG_MODULES was missed making
the whole check useless
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
device_del and device_rename were modified to use
sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link respectively to ensure
when these operations happen on devices whose classes
are in namespace directories they work properly.
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>
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>
While device_shutdown() walks through devices_kset to shutdown all
devices, device unplug events may race to shutdown individual devices.
Specifically, sd_shutdown(), on behalf of fc_starget_delete(), has
been observed deleting devices during device_shutdown()'s list
traversal. So we factor out list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(...) in
favor of while (!list_empty(...)).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Daschbach <hdasch@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The conversion of device->sem to device->mutex resulted in lockdep
warnings. Create a novalidate class for now until the driver folks
come up with separate classes. That way we have at least the basic
mutex debugging coverage.
Add a checkpatch error so the usage is reserved for device->mutex.
[ tglx: checkpatch and compile fix for LOCKDEP=n ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The semaphore is semantically a mutex. Convert it to a real mutex and
fix up a few places where code was relying on semaphore.h to be included
by device.h, as well as the users of the trylock function, as that value
is now reversed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1351) removes an unnecessary and unwanted assignment
from device_initialize(). The wakeup flags are set to 0 along with
everything else when the device structure is allocated, so we don't
need to do it again. Furthermore, the subsystem might already have
set these flags to their correct values; we don't want to override it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
A number of functions in the driver core return ERR_PTR() values on
error. Document this in the kernel-doc of the functions.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Don't open code the renaming of symlinks in sysfs
instead use the new helper function sysfs_rename_link
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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>
No longer fall back to "add" and warn, but always require a valid
action-string written to the "uevent" file.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs is creating several devices in cuse class concurrently and with
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED turned off, it triggers the following oops.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
IP: [<ffffffff81158b0a>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x4a/0xf0
PGD 75bb067 PUD 75be067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/topology/core_siblings
CPU 1
Modules linked in: cuse fuse
Pid: 4737, comm: osspd Not tainted 2.6.31-work #77
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81158b0a>] [<ffffffff81158b0a>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x4a/0xf0
RSP: 0018:ffff88000042f8f8 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: ffff88000042ffd8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880007eef660 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88000042f918 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffff81158b0a R12: ffff88000042f928
R13: 00000000fffffff4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88000042f9a0
FS: 00007fe93905a950(0000) GS:ffff880008600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 00000000077c9000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process osspd (pid: 4737, threadinfo ffff88000042e000, task ffff880007eef040)
Stack:
ffff880005da10e8 0000000011cc8d6e ffff88000042f928 ffff880003d28a28
<0> ffff88000042f988 ffffffff811592d7 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
<0> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000042f958 0000000011cc8d6e
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811592d7>] create_dir+0x67/0xe0
[<ffffffff811593a8>] sysfs_create_dir+0x58/0xb0
[<ffffffff8128ca7c>] ? kobject_add_internal+0xcc/0x220
[<ffffffff812942e1>] ? vsnprintf+0x3c1/0xb90
[<ffffffff8128cab7>] kobject_add_internal+0x107/0x220
[<ffffffff8128cd37>] kobject_add_varg+0x47/0x80
[<ffffffff8128ce53>] kobject_add+0x53/0x90
[<ffffffff81357d84>] device_add+0xd4/0x690
[<ffffffff81356c2b>] ? dev_set_name+0x4b/0x70
[<ffffffffa001a884>] cuse_process_init_reply+0x2b4/0x420 [cuse]
...
The problem is that kobject_add_internal() first adds a kobject to the
kset and then try to create sysfs directory for it. If the creation
fails, it remove the kobject from the kset. get_device_parent()
accesses class_dirs kset while only holding class_dirs.list_lock to
see whether the cuse class dir exists. But when it exists, it may not
have finished initialization yet or may fail and get removed soon. In
the above case, the former happened so the second one ends up trying
to create subdirectory under NULL sysfs_dirent.
Fix it by grabbing a mutex in get_device_parent().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@mandriva.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
If device_add() is called with a device which does not have dev->p set
up, then device_private_init() is called. If that succeeds, then the
error variable is set to 0. Now if the dev_name(dev) check further
down fails, then device_add() correctly terminates, but returns 0.
That of course lets the driver progress. If later another driver uses
this half set up device as parent then device_add() of the child
device explodes and renders sysfs completely unusable.
Set the error to -EINVAL if dev_name() check fails.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Many struct bin_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore
make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors
be put in a ro section.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Most device_attributes are const, and are begging to be
put in a ro section. However, the create and remove
file interfaces were failing to propagate the const promise
which the only functions they call offer.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1310) works around a race in dev_driver_string(). If
the device is unbound while the function is running, dev->driver might
become NULL after we test it and before we dereference it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not
clean up any kernel data structures. Therefore don't put the kobjects
for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char.
This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while
we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices.
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.
This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs
very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device
is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a
device node in devtmpfs.
Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time,
and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs.
Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will
recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it.
The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions
and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still
needs to be applied by userspace.
If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node
when the device goes away. If the device node was created by
userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it
will no longer be removed by devtmpfs.
If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work
without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated
and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel.
With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem
where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices.
It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust,
by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run
userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide
a working /dev.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Let attribute group vectors be declared "const". We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
No one should directly access the driver_data field, so remove the field
and make it private. We dynamically create the private field now if it
is needed, to handle drivers that call get/set before they are
registered with the driver core.
Also update the copyright notices on these files while we are there.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
