Sysfs has the _ATTR() and _ATTR_RO() macros to make defining extended
form attributes easier.  configfs should have something similiar.

- _CONFIGFS_ATTR() and _CONFIGFS_ATTR_RO() are the counterparts to the
  sysfs macros.
- CONFIGFS_ATTR_STRUCT() creates the extended form attribute structure.
- CONFIGFS_ATTR_OPS() defines the show_attribute()/store_attribute()
  operations that call the show()/store() operations of the extended
  form configfs_attributes.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return ERR_PTR() values.  These errors are
bubbled up appropriately.  NULL returns are changed to -ENOMEM for
compatibility.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

This is a rework of reverted commit 11c3b792.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

This reverts commit 11c3b792.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return an int.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: NYoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NGreg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Convert the su_sem member of struct configfs_subsystem to a struct
mutex, as that's what it is. Also convert all the users and update
Documentation/configfs.txt and Documentation/configfs_example.c
accordingly.

[ Conflict in fs/dlm/config.c with commit
  3168b078 manually resolved. --Mark ]
Inspired-by: NSatyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

The configfs_example module was missing a ->release().
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022.  Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>