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2013-08-27driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files.Greg Kroah-Hartman
This is needed to fix the build on sh systems. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups()Greg Kroah-Hartman
These functions are being open-coded in 3 different places in the driver core, and other driver subsystems will want to start doing this as well, so move it to the sysfs core to keep it all in one place, where we know it is written properly. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-12driver core: bus_type: add drv_groupsGreg Kroah-Hartman
attribute groups are much more flexible than just a list of attributes, due to their support for visibility of the attributes, and binary attributes. Add drv_groups to struct bus_type which should be used instead of drv_attrs. drv_attrs will be removed from the structure soon. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17driver core: don't trigger uevent after failureSebastian Ott
Do not send the uevent if driver_add_groups failed. Reported-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-16driver core: move uevent call to driver_registerSebastian Ott
Device driver attribute groups are created after userspace is notified via an add event. Fix this by moving the kobject_uevent call to driver_register after the attribute groups are added. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-14Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver in driver_find_device()Hiroshi DOYU
driver_find_device() can be called with an unregistered driver. Need to check driver_private to see if it's populated or not, especially under deferrable probe. In the case that there are 2 drivers, one depends on the other. With -EPROBE_DEFER, two drivers can use deferred probe to ensure that their relative probe order doesn't matter. If dependee driver is probed first, then the dependant's driver_find_device('dependee') succeeds. If the dependant is probed first, then the dependant's driver_find_device('dependee') should return NULL, and the dependant should get -EPROBE_DEFER. driver_find_device() needs to return NULL if it's not populated. In [PATCHv5 2/3] ARM: tegra: Add SMMU enabler in AHB: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.tegra/4658 "tegra_ahb_driver" may not be populated when it's called. For more SMMU/AHB specific discussion, refer to the following thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/10/21 Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <hdoyu@nvidia.com> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-19Revert "driver core: check start node in klist_iter_init_node"Greg Kroah-Hartman
This reverts commit a15d49fd3094cff90e5410ca454a870e0a722fe1 as that patch broke the build. Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-18driver core: check start node in klist_iter_init_nodeHannes Reinecke
klist_iter_init_node() takes a node as a start argument. However, this node might not be valid anymore. This patch updates the klist_iter_init_node() and dependent functions to return an error if so. All calling functions have been audited to check for a return code here. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartmann <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-21Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window. It is going to be a bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to maintain and that nobody really used anymore. Here are some of the highlights: - Legacy iSeries is gone. Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks hopefully. - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"... it's a rewrite of a mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the new implementation hopefully being much more reliable. Thanks Mahesh Salgaonkar. - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare. The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is there. Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is not very nice and which Grant objects to. I will have a patch soon that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully getting rid of the need for that pointer completely). Thanks Gavin Shan. - I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page fault retry & fatal signals on page faults. - Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..." I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from Grant Likely, hopefully correctly. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits) powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate() powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts ...
2012-03-09driver-core: remove legacy iSeries hackStephen Rothwell
The PowerPC legacy iSeries plateform is being removed along with the "one looney iseries driver", so this code can now be removed as well. cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-01-24Eliminate get_driver() and put_driver()Alan Stern
Now that there are no users of get_driver() or put_driver(), this patch (as1513) removes those routines completely. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-24Driver core: driver_find() drops reference before returningAlan Stern
As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch (as1510) changes driver_find(); it now drops the reference it acquires before returning. The patch also adjusts all the callers of driver_find() to remove the now unnecessary calls to put_driver(). In addition, the patch adds a warning to driver_find(): Callers must make sure the driver they are searching for does not get unloaded while they are using it. This has always been the case; driver_find() has never prevented a driver from being unregistered or unloaded. Hence the patch will not introduce any new bugs. The existing callers all seem to be okay in this respect, however I don't understand the video drivers well enough to be certain about them. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> CC: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> CC: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 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>
2009-12-23Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*Phil Carmody
Many struct driver_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>
2009-10-30Driver core: fix driver_register() return valueStas Sergeev
In this patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=16dc42e018c2868211b4928f20a957c0c216126c the check was added for another driver to already claim the same device on the same bus. But the returned error code was wrong: to modprobe, the -EEXIST means that _this_ driver is already installed. It therefore doesn't produce the needed error message when _another_ driver is trying to register for the same device. Returning -EBUSY fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15driver model: constify attribute groupsDavid Brownell
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>
2009-05-28Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered ↵Kay Sievers
drivers We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully. Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo. Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24driver core: move knode_driver into private structureGreg Kroah-Hartman
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_driver, so move it out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24driver-core: do not register a driver with bus_type not registeredDave Young
If the bus_type is not registerd, driver_register to that bus will cause oops. I found this bug when test built-in usb serial drivers (ie. aircable driver) with 'nousb' cmdline params. In this patch: 1. set the bus->p=NULL when bus_register failed and unregisterd. 2. if bus->p is NULL, driver_register BUG_ON will be triggered. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-09Revert "driver core: move knode_driver into private structure"Greg Kroah-Hartman
This reverts commit 93e746db183b3bdbbda67900f79b5835f9cb388f. Turns out that device_initialize shouldn't fail silently. This series needs to be reworked in order to get into proper shape. Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06driver core: move knode_driver into private structureGreg Kroah-Hartman
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_driver, so move it out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-08-21drivers/base/driver.c: remove unused to_dev() macroJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30driver core: warn about duplicate driver names on the same busStas Sergeev
Currently an attempt to register multiple drivers with the same name causes the stack trace with some cryptic error message. The attached patch adds the necessary check and the clear error message. Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-28driver core: fix small mem leak in driver_add_kobj()Jesper Juhl
The Coverity checker spotted that we leak the storage allocated to 'name' in int driver_add_kobj(). The leak looks legit to me - this is the code : int driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt, ...) { va_list args; char *name; int ret; va_start(args, fmt); name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, args); ^^^^^^^^ This dynamically allocates space... va_end(args); if (!name) return -ENOMEM; return kobject_add(kobj, &drv->p->kobj, "%s", name); ^^^^^^^^ This neglects to free the space allocated } Inside kobject_add() a copy of 'name' will be made and used. As far as I can see, Coverity is correct in flagging this as a leak, but I'd like some configmation before the patch is applied. This should fix it. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-21driver-core: fix kernel-doc function parametersRandy Dunlap
Fix drivers/base/ missing kernel-doc parameters: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/base/driver.c:133): No description found for parameter 'drv' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/base/driver.c:133): No description found for parameter 'kobj' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/base/driver.c:133): No description found for parameter 'fmt' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/base/power/main.c:530): No description found for parameter 'state' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-02Driver core: Remove unneeded get_{device,driver}() calls.Cornelia Huck
Driver core: Remove unneeded get_{device,driver}() calls. Code trying to add/remove attributes must hold a reference to the device resp. driver anyway, so let's remove those reference count games. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: coding style fixesGreg Kroah-Hartman
Fix up a number of coding style issues in the drivers/base/ directory that have annoyed me over the years. checkpatch.pl is now very happy. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()Greg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2008-01-24Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
This patch removes the kobject, and a few other driver-core-only fields out of struct driver and into the driver core only. Now drivers can be safely create on the stack or statically (like they currently are.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver: add driver_add_kobj for looney iseries_veth driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
The iseries driver wants to hang kobjects off of its driver, so, to preserve backwards compatibility, we need to add a call to the driver core to allow future changes to work properly. Hopefully no one uses this function in the future and the iseries_veth driver authors come to their senses so I can remove this hack... Cc: Dave Larson <larson1@us.ibm.com> Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: Introduce default attribute groups.Cornelia Huck
This is lot like default attributes for devices (and indeed, a lot of the code is lifted from there). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: remove fields from struct bus_typeGreg Kroah-Hartman
struct bus_type is static everywhere in the kernel. This moves the kobject in the structure out of it, and a bunch of other private only to the driver core fields are now moved to a private structure. This lets us dynamically create the backing kobject properly and gives us the chance to be able to document to users exactly how to use the struct bus_type as there are no fields they can improperly access. Thanks to Kay for the build fixes on this patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert struct bus_device->drivers to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be outside of the driver core...) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: remove unneeded completion from driver release pathGreg Kroah-Hartman
The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed. Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure. This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be reference counted properly in order to work correctly. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-01driver core: do not wait unnecessarily in driver_unregister()Linus Torvalds
Ingo reported that built-in drivers suffered bootup hangs with certain driver unregistry sequences, due to sysfs breakage. Do the minimal fix for v2.6.21: only wait if the driver is a module. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-09-25Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver coreAlan Stern
This patch (as783) simplifies the driver core slightly by removing four unnecessary _get and _put methods. It is vital that when a driver is removed from its bus's klist of registered drivers, or when a device is removed from a driver's klist of bound devices, that the klist updates complete synchronously. Otherwise the kernel might try binding an unregistered driver to a newly-registered device, or adding a device to the klist for a new driver before it has been removed from the old driver's klist. Since the removals must be synchronous, they don't need to update any reference counts. Hence the _get and _put methods can be dispensed with. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-13[PATCH] Add bus_type probe, remove, shutdown methods.Russell King
Add bus_type probe, remove and shutdown methods to replace the corresponding methods in struct device_driver. This matches the way we handle the suspend/resume methods. Since the bus methods override the device_driver methods, warn if a device driver is registered whose methods will not be called. The long-term idea is to remove the device_driver methods entirely. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28[PATCH] kernel-doc: drivers/base fixesRandy Dunlap
driver/base: add missing function parameters; eliminate all warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-07[PATCH] fix klist semantics for lists which have elements removed on traversalJames Bottomley
The problem is that klists claim to provide semantics for safe traversal of lists which are being modified. The failure case is when traversal of a list causes element removal (a fairly common case). The issue is that although the list node is refcounted, if it is embedded in an object (which is universally the case), then the object will be freed regardless of the klist refcount leading to slab corruption because the klist iterator refers to the prior element to get the next. The solution is to make the klist take and release references to the embedding object meaning that the embedding object won't be released until the list relinquishes the reference to it. (akpm: fast-track this because it's needed for the 2.6.13 scsi merge) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> 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>
2005-06-29[PATCH] driver core: add bus_find_device & driver_find_device functionsCornelia Huck
Add bus_find_device() and driver_find_device() which allow searching for a device in the bus's resp. the driver's klist and obtain a reference on it. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] driver core: change export symbol for driver_for_each_device()gregkh@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/base/driver.c ===================================================================
2005-06-20[PATCH] Fix up bogus comment.mochel@digitalimplant.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff -Nru a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
2005-06-20[PATCH] Add a klist to struct device_driver for the devices bound to it.mochel@digitalimplant.org
- Use it in driver_for_each_device() instead of the regular list_head and stop using the bus's rwsem for protection. - Use driver_for_each_device() in driver_detach() so we don't deadlock on the bus's rwsem. - Remove ->devices. - Move klist access and sysfs link access out from under device's semaphore, since they're synchronized through other means. Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] Add driver_for_each_device().mochel@digitalimplant.org
Now there's an iterator for accessing each device bound to a driver. Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/base/driver.c ===================================================================
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!