From: Alan Stern Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:51:28 +0000 (-0400) Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc4~2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7b0d26a86943370c04d6833c6edba2a72a6e240;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration This patch (as869) reinstates the mutual exclusion between sysfs attribute method calls and attribute unregistration. The previously-reported deadlocks have been fixed, and this exclusion is by far the simplest way to avoid races during driver unbinding. The check for orphaned read-buffers has been moved down slightly, so that the remainder of a partially-read buffer will still be available to userspace even after the attribute has been unregistered. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Cornelia Huck Cc: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c index 1bafdf6e17..fc4633378d 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -168,12 +168,12 @@ sysfs_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) ssize_t retval = 0; down(&buffer->sem); - if (buffer->orphaned) { - retval = -ENODEV; - goto out; - } if (buffer->needs_read_fill) { - if ((retval = fill_read_buffer(file->f_path.dentry,buffer))) + if (buffer->orphaned) + retval = -ENODEV; + else + retval = fill_read_buffer(file->f_path.dentry,buffer); + if (retval) goto out; } pr_debug("%s: count = %zd, ppos = %lld, buf = %s\n", diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c index ccb7d722c5..4de5c6b899 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c @@ -222,13 +222,17 @@ const unsigned char * sysfs_get_name(struct sysfs_dirent *sd) static inline void orphan_all_buffers(struct inode *node) { - struct sysfs_buffer_collection *set = node->i_private; + struct sysfs_buffer_collection *set; struct sysfs_buffer *buf; mutex_lock_nested(&node->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); - if (node->i_private) { - list_for_each_entry(buf, &set->associates, associates) + set = node->i_private; + if (set) { + list_for_each_entry(buf, &set->associates, associates) { + down(&buf->sem); buf->orphaned = 1; + up(&buf->sem); + } } mutex_unlock(&node->i_mutex); }