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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2007-06-14 03:45:17 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-07-11 16:09:06 -0700
commit7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 (patch)
treecd06687ab3e5c7a5a4ef91903dff207a18c4db76 /fs
parentdbde0fcf9f8f6d477af3c32d9979e789ee680cde (diff)
sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ecryptfs/main.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/partitions/check.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/bin.c19
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/file.c21
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
index 606128f5c92..02ca6f1e55d 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
@@ -840,8 +840,6 @@ static int __init ecryptfs_init(void)
goto out;
}
kobj_set_kset_s(&ecryptfs_subsys, fs_subsys);
- sysfs_attr_version.attr.owner = THIS_MODULE;
- sysfs_attr_version_str.attr.owner = THIS_MODULE;
rc = do_sysfs_registration();
if (rc) {
printk(KERN_ERR "sysfs registration failed\n");
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
index 2b205f5d579..e9e042b93db 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ struct mlog_attribute {
#define define_mask(_name) { \
.attr = { \
.name = #_name, \
- .owner = THIS_MODULE, \
.mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, \
}, \
.mask = ML_##_name, \
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 9a3a058f355..98e0b85a9bb 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len,
static struct attribute addpartattr = {
.name = "whole_disk",
.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr);
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 618b8aea6a7..3c5574a40b0 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -175,25 +175,20 @@ static int open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
if (!sysfs_get_active(attr_sd))
return -ENODEV;
- /* Grab the module reference for this attribute */
- error = -ENODEV;
- if (!try_module_get(attr->attr.owner))
- goto err_sput;
-
error = -EACCES;
if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !(attr->write || attr->mmap))
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) && !(attr->read || attr->mmap))
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
error = -ENOMEM;
bb = kzalloc(sizeof(*bb), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!bb)
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
bb->buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!bb->buffer)
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
mutex_init(&bb->mutex);
file->private_data = bb;
@@ -203,9 +198,7 @@ static int open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
sysfs_get(attr_sd);
return 0;
- err_mput:
- module_put(attr->attr.owner);
- err_sput:
+ err_out:
sysfs_put_active(attr_sd);
kfree(bb);
return error;
@@ -214,13 +207,11 @@ static int open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
static int release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *attr_sd = file->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata;
- struct bin_attribute *attr = attr_sd->s_elem.bin_attr.bin_attr;
struct bin_buffer *bb = file->private_data;
if (bb->mmapped)
sysfs_put_active_two(attr_sd);
sysfs_put(attr_sd);
- module_put(attr->attr.owner);
kfree(bb->buffer);
kfree(bb);
return 0;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index d673d9b5d33..a84b734f7b2 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@ sysfs_write_file(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t
static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *attr_sd = file->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata;
- struct attribute *attr = attr_sd->s_elem.attr.attr;
struct kobject *kobj = attr_sd->s_parent->s_elem.dir.kobj;
struct sysfs_buffer * buffer;
struct sysfs_ops * ops = NULL;
@@ -251,11 +250,6 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (!sysfs_get_active_two(attr_sd))
return -ENODEV;
- /* Grab the module reference for this attribute */
- error = -ENODEV;
- if (!try_module_get(attr->owner))
- goto err_sput;
-
/* if the kobject has no ktype, then we assume that it is a subsystem
* itself, and use ops for it.
*/
@@ -272,7 +266,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
* or the subsystem have no operations.
*/
if (!ops)
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
/* File needs write support.
* The inode's perms must say it's ok,
@@ -280,7 +274,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
*/
if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
if (!(inode->i_mode & S_IWUGO) || !ops->store)
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
}
/* File needs read support.
@@ -289,7 +283,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
*/
if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) {
if (!(inode->i_mode & S_IRUGO) || !ops->show)
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
}
/* No error? Great, allocate a buffer for the file, and store it
@@ -298,7 +292,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
error = -ENOMEM;
buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer)
- goto err_mput;
+ goto err_out;
init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
@@ -310,9 +304,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
sysfs_get(attr_sd);
return 0;
- err_mput:
- module_put(attr->owner);
- err_sput:
+ err_out:
sysfs_put_active_two(attr_sd);
return error;
}
@@ -320,12 +312,9 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
static int sysfs_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *attr_sd = filp->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata;
- struct attribute *attr = attr_sd->s_elem.attr.attr;
struct sysfs_buffer *buffer = filp->private_data;
sysfs_put(attr_sd);
- /* After this point, attr should not be accessed. */
- module_put(attr->owner);
if (buffer) {
if (buffer->page)