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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-model/device.txt | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/user.c | 67 |
4 files changed, 75 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt index a7cbfff40d07..a124f3126b0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt @@ -162,3 +162,35 @@ device_remove_file(dev,&dev_attr_power); The file name will be 'power' with a mode of 0644 (-rw-r--r--). +Word of warning: While the kernel allows device_create_file() and +device_remove_file() to be called on a device at any time, userspace has +strict expectations on when attributes get created. When a new device is +registered in the kernel, a uevent is generated to notify userspace (like +udev) that a new device is available. If attributes are added after the +device is registered, then userspace won't get notified and userspace will +not know about the new attributes. + +This is important for device driver that need to publish additional +attributes for a device at driver probe time. If the device driver simply +calls device_create_file() on the device structure passed to it, then +userspace will never be notified of the new attributes. Instead, it should +probably use class_create() and class->dev_attrs to set up a list of +desired attributes in the modules_init function, and then in the .probe() +hook, and then use device_create() to create a new device as a child +of the probed device. The new device will generate a new uevent and +properly advertise the new attributes to userspace. + +For example, if a driver wanted to add the following attributes: +struct device_attribute mydriver_attribs[] = { + __ATTR(port_count, 0444, port_count_show), + __ATTR(serial_number, 0444, serial_number_show), + NULL +}; + +Then in the module init function is would do: + mydriver_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "my_attrs"); + mydriver_class.dev_attr = mydriver_attribs; + +And assuming 'dev' is the struct device passed into the probe hook, the driver +probe function would do something like: + create_device(&mydriver_class, dev, chrdev, &private_data, "my_name"); diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 3a2e4e01cd3b..24c721e0026a 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ struct user_struct { struct task_group *tg; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS struct kobject kobj; - struct work_struct work; + struct delayed_work work; #endif #endif }; diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 57651e305a4c..d1e01f10e88d 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -615,13 +615,13 @@ config SYSFS_DEPRECATED bool config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 - bool "Create deprecated sysfs layout for older userspace tools" + bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" depends on SYSFS - default y + default n select SYSFS_DEPRECATED help This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated - version. + version. Do not use it on recent distributions. The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 850e0ba41c1e..2c000e7132ac 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -75,21 +75,6 @@ static void uid_hash_remove(struct user_struct *up) put_user_ns(up->user_ns); } -static struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent) -{ - struct user_struct *user; - struct hlist_node *h; - - hlist_for_each_entry(user, h, hashent, uidhash_node) { - if (user->uid == uid) { - atomic_inc(&user->__count); - return user; - } - } - - return NULL; -} - #ifdef CONFIG_USER_SCHED static void sched_destroy_user(struct user_struct *up) @@ -119,6 +104,23 @@ static int sched_create_user(struct user_struct *up) { return 0; } #if defined(CONFIG_USER_SCHED) && defined(CONFIG_SYSFS) +static struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent) +{ + struct user_struct *user; + struct hlist_node *h; + + hlist_for_each_entry(user, h, hashent, uidhash_node) { + if (user->uid == uid) { + /* possibly resurrect an "almost deleted" object */ + if (atomic_inc_return(&user->__count) == 1) + cancel_delayed_work(&user->work); + return user; + } + } + + return NULL; +} + static struct kset *uids_kset; /* represents the /sys/kernel/uids/ directory */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(uids_mutex); @@ -283,12 +285,12 @@ int __init uids_sysfs_init(void) return uids_user_create(&root_user); } -/* work function to remove sysfs directory for a user and free up +/* delayed work function to remove sysfs directory for a user and free up * corresponding structures. */ static void cleanup_user_struct(struct work_struct *w) { - struct user_struct *up = container_of(w, struct user_struct, work); + struct user_struct *up = container_of(w, struct user_struct, work.work); unsigned long flags; int remove_user = 0; @@ -297,15 +299,12 @@ static void cleanup_user_struct(struct work_struct *w) */ uids_mutex_lock(); - local_irq_save(flags); - - if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count, &uidhash_lock)) { + spin_lock_irqsave(&uidhash_lock, flags); + if (atomic_read(&up->__count) == 0) { uid_hash_remove(up); remove_user = 1; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); - } else { - local_irq_restore(flags); } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); if (!remove_user) goto done; @@ -331,16 +330,28 @@ done: */ static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags) { - /* restore back the count */ - atomic_inc(&up->__count); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); - - INIT_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct); - schedule_work(&up->work); + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct); + schedule_delayed_work(&up->work, msecs_to_jiffies(1000)); } #else /* CONFIG_USER_SCHED && CONFIG_SYSFS */ +static struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent) +{ + struct user_struct *user; + struct hlist_node *h; + + hlist_for_each_entry(user, h, hashent, uidhash_node) { + if (user->uid == uid) { + atomic_inc(&user->__count); + return user; + } + } + + return NULL; +} + int uids_sysfs_init(void) { return 0; } static inline int uids_user_create(struct user_struct *up) { return 0; } static inline void uids_mutex_lock(void) { } |