Instead of always returning 0 in efivarfs_file_read(), even when we
fail to successfully read the variable, convert the EFI status to
something meaningful and return that to the caller. This way the user
will have some hint as to why the read failed.
Acked-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

At present, the handling of GUIDs in efivar file names isn't consistent.
We use GUID_LEN in some places, and 38 in others (GUID_LEN plus
separator), and implicitly use the presence of the trailing NUL.

This change removes the trailing NUL from GUID_LEN, so that we're
explicitly adding it when required. We also replace magic numbers
with GUID_LEN, and clarify the comments where appropriate.

We also fix the allocation size in efivar_create_sysfs_entry, where
we're allocating one byte too much, due to counting the trailing NUL
twice - once when calculating short_name_size, and once in the kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

Currently, efivarfs does not enforce exclusion over the get_variable and
set_variable operations. Section 7.1 of UEFI requires us to only allow a
single processor to enter {get,set}_variable services at once.

This change acquires the efivars->lock over calls to these operations
from the efivarfs paths.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

Ensure we free both the name and inode on error when building the
individual variables.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

d_alloc_name() copies the passed name to new storage, once complete we
no longer need our name.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

When d_make_root() fails it will automatically drop the reference
on the root inode.  We should not be doing so as well.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

UEFI variable filesystem need a new mount point, so this patch add
efivars kobject to efi_kobj for create a /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
folder.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NLee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

A write to an efivarfs file will not always result in a variable of
'count' size after the EFI SetVariable() call. We may have appended to
the existing data (ie, with the EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE attribute), or
even have deleted the variable (with an authenticated variable update,
with a zero datasize).

This change re-reads the updated variable from firmware, to check for
size changes and deletions. In the latter case, we need to drop the
dentry.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

The existing EFI variables code only supports variables of up to 1024
bytes. This limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification,
but was removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be
larger than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this. So,
instead, let's add a filesystem. Variables can be read, written and
created, with the first 4 bytes of each variable representing its UEFI
attributes. The create() method doesn't actually commit to flash since
zero-length variables can't exist per-spec.

Updates from Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

Some of the EFI variable attributes are missing from print out from
/sys/firmware/efi/vars/*/attributes. This patch adds those in. It also
updates code to use pre-defined constants for masking current value
of attributes.
Signed-off-by: NKhalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Ben Hutchings pointed out that the validation in efivars was inadequate -
most obviously, an entry with size 0 would server as a DoS against the
kernel. Improve this based on his suggestions.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A common flaw in UEFI systems is a refusal to POST triggered by a malformed
boot variable. Once in this state, machines may only be restored by
reflashing their firmware with an external hardware device. While this is
obviously a firmware bug, the serious nature of the outcome suggests that
operating systems should filter their variable writes in order to prevent
a malicious user from rendering the machine unusable.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In the case where CONFIG_PSTORE=n, the function efi_pstore_read() doesn't
have the correct list of parameters. This patch provides a definition
of efi_pstore_read() with 'char **buf' added to fix this warning:
"drivers/firmware/efivars.c:609: warning: initialization from".

problem introduced in commit f6f82851Signed-off-by: NChristoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore
reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has
no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details.

Drop pstore_write() as it has no users, and handling the "reason" here
has no obviously correct value.
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend
pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following
backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends
that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path.

To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close
loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend.

Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is
called in the middle of the read path.

[   59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847
[   59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount
[   59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1
[   59.691019] Call Trace:
[   59.691019]  [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca
[   59.691019]  [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3
[   59.691019]  [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4
[   59.691019]  [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64
[   59.691019]  [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43
[   59.691019]  [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98
[   59.691019]  [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f
[   59.691019]  [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1
[   59.691019]  [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158
[   59.691019]  [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c
[   59.691019]  [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0
[   59.691019]  [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27
[   59.691019]  [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
[   59.691019]  [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7
[   59.691019]  [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91
[   59.691019]  [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82
[   59.691019]  [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17
[   59.691019]  [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98
[   59.691019]  [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d
[   59.691019]  [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a
[   59.691019]  [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d
[   59.691019]  [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2
[   59.691019]  [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a
[   59.691019]  [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f
[   59.691019]  [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99
[   59.691019]  [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Currently pstore write interface employs record id as return
value, but it is not enough because it can't tell caller if
the write operation is successful. Pass the record id back via
an argument pointer and return zero for success, non-zero for
failure.
Signed-off-by: NChen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
backend plug-ins.  This causes problems when pstore is executed in
an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().

This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
see if we are in an NMI context.  If we are in an NMI and can't get the
lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.

All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.

Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.
Signed-off-by: NDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

drivers/firmware/efivars.c:161: warning: ‘utf16_strlen’ defined but not used
utf16_strlen() is only used inside CONFIG_PSTORE - make this "static inline"
to shut the compiler up [thanks to hpa for the suggestion].

drivers/firmware/efivars.c:602: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Between v1 and v2 of this patch series we decided to make the "part" number
unsigned - but missed fixing the stub version of efi_pstore_write()
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Consolidate the attributes listed for pstore operations in one place,
PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Instead of open-coding the string operations for comparing the prefix of
the variable names, use the provided utf16_* string functions.

This patch also changes the calls to efi.set_variable to
efivars->ops->set_variable so that the right function gets called in the
case of gsmi (which doesn't have a valid efi structure).

As well, make sure that we only consider variables with the right vendor
string.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Introduce utf16_strncmp which is used in the next patch.  Semantics
should be the same as the strncmp C function.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Fix the string functions in the efivars driver to be called utf16_*
instead of utf8_* as the encoding is utf16, not utf8.

As well, rename utf16_strlen to utf16_strnlen as it takes a maxlength
argument and the name should be consistent with the standard C function
names.  utf16_strlen is still provided for convenience in a subsequent
patch.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

EFI provides an area of nonvolatile storage managed by the firmware. We
can use this as a pstore backend to maintain copies of oopses, aiding
diagnosis.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

- kenrel -> kernel
- whetehr -> whether
- ttt -> tt
- sss -> ss
Signed-off-by: NJustin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

efivars_exit() should check for efi_enabled and not undo
allocations when efi is not enabled.  Otherwise there is an Oops
during module unload:

calling  efivars_init+0x0/0x1000 [efivars] @ 2810
EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
initcall efivars_init+0x0/0x1000 [efivars] returned 0 after 5120 usecs
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/module/firmware_class/initstate
CPU 1
Modules linked in: efivars(-) af_packet tun nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep mousedev snd_seq joydev snd_seq_device mac_hid evdev snd_pcm usbkbd usbmouse usbhid snd_timer hid tg3 snd sr_mod pcspkr rtc_cmos soundcore cdrom iTCO_wdt processor sg dcdbas i2c_i801 rtc_core iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp snd_page_alloc thermal_sys rtc_lib intel_gtt 8250_pnp button hwmon unix ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix sd_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ssb mmc_core pcmcia pcmcia_core firmware_class ehci_hcd usbcore [last unloaded: dell_rbu]

Pid: 2812, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6 #1 Dell Inc.                 OptiPlex 745                 /0TY565
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa06a17f6>]  [<ffffffffa06a17f6>] unregister_efivars+0x28/0x12c [efivars]
RSP: 0018:ffff88005eedde98  EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: ffffffffa06a23fc RBX: ffffffffa06a44c0 RCX: ffff88007c227a50
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000055ac13db78 RDI: ffffffffa06a44c0
RBP: ffff88005eeddec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88005eeddd78
R10: ffffffffa06a4220 R11: ffff88005eeddd78 R12: fffffffffffff7d0
R13: 00007fff5a3aaec0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffa06a4508
FS:  00007fa8dcc4a6f0(0000) GS:ffff88007c200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000005d148000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process rmmod (pid: 2812, threadinfo ffff88005eedc000, task ffff88006754b000)
Stack:
 ffff88005eeddec8 ffffffffa06a4220 0000000000000000 00007fff5a3aaec0
 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff88005eedded8 ffffffffa06a2418
 ffff88005eeddf78 ffffffff810d3598 ffffffffa06a4220 0000000000000880
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa06a2418>] efivars_exit+0x1c/0xc04 [efivars]
 [<ffffffff810d3598>] sys_delete_module+0x2d6/0x368
 [<ffffffff812d1db9>] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67
 [<ffffffff810fcba1>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x172/0x1a5
 [<ffffffff81575082>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 5c c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 8b 67 48 48 89 fb 4c 8d 7f 48 49 81 ec 30 08 00 00 <4d> 8b ac 24 30 08 00 00 49 81 ed 30 08 00 00 eb 59 48 89 df 48
RIP  [<ffffffffa06a17f6>] unregister_efivars+0x28/0x12c [efivars]
 RSP <ffff88005eedde98>
CR2: 0000000000000000
 ---[ end trace aa99b99090f70baa ]---

Matt apparently removed such a check in 2004 (with no reason given):
 *  17 May 2004 - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
 *   remove check for efi_enabled in exit
but there have been several changes since then.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Tested-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

We should unwind and return an error if register_efivars() fails.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is a cut and paste bug.  We intended to free ->del_var and
->new_var but we only free ->new_var.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Instead of letting efivars access struct efi directly when dealing with
variables, use an operations structure.  This allows a later change to
reuse the efivars logic without having to pretend to support everything
in struct efi.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

In anticipation of re-using the variable facilities in efivars from
elsewhere, split out the registration and unregistration of struct
efivars from the rest of the EFI specific sysfs code.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Now that we all global variable state is encapsulated by struct efivars,
parameterize all functions to the efivars local to the control flow rather
than at file scope.  We do this by removing the variable "efivars" at file
scope and move its storage down to the end of the file.

Variables get at efivars by storing the efivars pointer within each
efivar_entry.  The "new_var" and "del_var" binary attribute files get at
the efivars through the private pointer.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

In preparation for encapsulating efivars, we need to have the
bin_attributes be dynamically allocated so that we can use their
->private fields to get back to the struct efivars structure.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

In preparation for abstracting out efivars to be usable by other similar
variable services, move the global lock, list and kset into a structure.
Later patches will change the scope of 'efivars' and have it be passed
by function argument.
Signed-off-by: NMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking 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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: NMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>