This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Update directory hardlink count when moving kobjects to a new parent.
Fixes the following problem which occurs when several devices are
moved to the same parent and then unregistered:

> ls -laF /sys/devices/css0/defunct/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 4294967295 root root    0 2009-07-14 17:02 ./
> drwxr-xr-x        114 root root    0 2009-07-14 17:02 ../
> drwxr-xr-x          2 root root    0 2009-07-14 17:01 power/
> -rw-r--r--          1 root root 4096 2009-07-14 17:01 uevent
Signed-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Commit 1c8542c7 replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
allocates memory which is never freed.
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There is the possiblity of a memory leak if a page is allocated and if
sysfs_getlink() fails in the sysfs_follow_link.
Signed-off-by: NArmin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

We don't need a kernel thread per CPU for this application.
Acked-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Remove open-coded memdup_user().
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Currently, following test programs don't finished.

% ruby -e '
Thread.new { sleep }
File.read("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies")
'

strace expose the reason.

...
open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbf9fa6b8) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
read(3, "1400000 1300000 1200000 1100000 1"..., 4096) = 62
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL


Because Ruby (the scripting language) VM assume select system-call
against regular file don't block.  it because SUSv3 says "Regular files
shall always poll TRUE for reading and writing".  see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html it
seems valid assumption.

But sysfs_poll() don't keep this rule although sysfs file can read and
write always.

This patch restore proper poll behavior to sysfs.
/sys/block/md*/md/sync_action polling application and another sysfs
updating sensitive application still can use POLLERR and POLLPRI.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A sysfs attribute using sysfs_schedule_callback() to commit suicide
may end up calling device_unregister(), which will eventually call
a driver's ->remove function.

Drivers may call flush_scheduled_work() in their shutdown routines,
in which case lockdep will complain with something like the following:

  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  2.6.29-rc8-kk #1
  ---------------------------------------------
  events/4/56 is trying to acquire lock:
  (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257fc0>] flush_workqueue+0x0/0xa0

  but task is already holding lock:
  (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257648>] run_workqueue+0x108/0x230

  other info that might help us debug this:
  3 locks held by events/4/56:
  #0:  (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257648>] run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
  #1:  (&ss->work){--..}, at: [<ffffffff80257648>] run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
  #2:  (pci_remove_rescan_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff803c10d1>] remove_callback+0x21/0x40

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 56, comm: events/4 Not tainted 2.6.29-rc8-kk #1
  Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8026dfcd>] validate_chain+0xb7d/0x1260
  [<ffffffff8026eade>] __lock_acquire+0x42e/0xa40
  [<ffffffff8026f148>] lock_acquire+0x58/0x80
  [<ffffffff80257fc0>] ? flush_workqueue+0x0/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8025800d>] flush_workqueue+0x4d/0xa0
  [<ffffffff80257fc0>] ? flush_workqueue+0x0/0xa0
  [<ffffffff80258070>] flush_scheduled_work+0x10/0x20
  [<ffffffffa0144065>] e1000_remove+0x55/0xfe [e1000e]
  [<ffffffff8033ee30>] ? sysfs_schedule_callback_work+0x0/0x50
  [<ffffffff803bfeb2>] pci_device_remove+0x32/0x70
  [<ffffffff80441da9>] __device_release_driver+0x59/0x90
  [<ffffffff80441edb>] device_release_driver+0x2b/0x40
  [<ffffffff804419d6>] bus_remove_device+0xa6/0x120
  [<ffffffff8043e46b>] device_del+0x12b/0x190
  [<ffffffff8043e4f6>] device_unregister+0x26/0x70
  [<ffffffff803ba969>] pci_stop_dev+0x49/0x60
  [<ffffffff803baab0>] pci_remove_bus_device+0x40/0xc0
  [<ffffffff803c10d9>] remove_callback+0x29/0x40
  [<ffffffff8033ee4f>] sysfs_schedule_callback_work+0x1f/0x50
  [<ffffffff8025769a>] run_workqueue+0x15a/0x230
  [<ffffffff80257648>] ? run_workqueue+0x108/0x230
  [<ffffffff8025846f>] worker_thread+0x9f/0x100
  [<ffffffff8025bce0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
  [<ffffffff802583d0>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x100
  [<ffffffff8025b89d>] kthread+0x4d/0x80
  [<ffffffff8020d4ba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
  [<ffffffff8020cebc>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
  [<ffffffff8025b850>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
  [<ffffffff8020d4b0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

Although we know that the device_unregister path will never acquire
a lock that a driver might try to acquire in its ->remove, in general
we should never attempt to flush a workqueue from within the same
workqueue, and lockdep rightly complains.

So as long as sysfs attributes cannot commit suicide directly and we
are stuck with this callback mechanism, put the sysfs callbacks on
their own workqueue instead of the global one.

This has the side benefit that if a suicidal sysfs attribute kicks
off a long chain of ->remove callbacks, we no longer induce a long
delay on the global queue.

This also fixes a missing module_put in the error path introduced
by sysfs-only-allow-one-scheduled-removal-callback-per-kobj.patch.

We never destroy the workqueue, but I'm not sure that's a
problem.
Reported-by: NKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: NKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix warnings and return values in sysfs bin_page_mkwrite(), fixing
fs/sysfs/bin.c: In function `bin_page_mkwrite':
fs/sysfs/bin.c:250: warning: passing argument 2 of `bb->vm_ops->page_mkwrite' from incompatible pointer type
fs/sysfs/bin.c: At top level:
fs/sysfs/bin.c:280: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Expects to have my [PATCH next] sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Commit 86c9508eb1c0ce5aa07b5cf1d36b60c54efc3d7a
"sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files" in linux-next
crashes the PowerMac G5 when X starts up.  It's caught out by the way
powerpc's pci_mmap of legacy_mem uses shmem_zero_setup(), substituting
a new vma->vm_file whose private_data no longer points to the bin_buffer
(substitution done because some versions of X crash if that mmap fails).

The fix to this is straightforward: the original vm_file is fput() in
that case, so this mmap won't block sysfs at all, so just don't switch
over to bin_vm_ops if vm_file has changed.

But more fixes made before realizing that was the problem:-

It should not be an error if bin_page_mkwrite() finds no underlying
page_mkwrite().

Check that a file already mmap'ed has the same underlying vm_ops
_before_ pointing vma->vm_ops at bin_vm_ops.

If the file being mmap'ed is a shmem/tmpfs file, don't fail the mmap
on CONFIG_NUMA=y, just because that has a set_policy and get_policy:
provide bin_set_policy, bin_get_policy and bin_migrate.
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: NEric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The only way for a sysfs attribute to remove itself (without
deadlock) is to use the sysfs_schedule_callback() interface.

Vegard Nossum discovered that a poorly written sysfs ->store
callback can repeatedly schedule remove callbacks on the same
device over and over, e.g.

	$ while true ; do echo 1 > /sys/devices/.../remove ; done

If the 'remove' attribute uses the sysfs_schedule_callback API
and also does not protect itself from concurrent accesses, its
callback handler will be called multiple times, and will
eventually attempt to perform operations on a freed kobject,
leading to many problems.

Instead of requiring all callers of sysfs_schedule_callback to
implement their own synchronization, provide the protection in
the infrastructure.

Now, sysfs_schedule_callback will only allow one scheduled
callback per kobject. On subsequent calls with the same kobject,
return -EAGAIN.

This is a short term fix. The long term fix is to allow sysfs
attributes to remove themselves directly, without any of this
callback hokey pokey.

[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: s390 ccwgroup bits]

Reported-by: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Modify sysfs bin files so that we can remove the bin file while they are
still mapped.  When the kobject is removed we unmap the bin file and
arrange for future accesses to the mapping to receive SIGBUS.

Implementing this prevents a nasty DOS when pci devices are hot plugged
and unplugged.  Where if any of their resources were mmaped the kernel
could not free up their pci resources or release their pci data
structures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused var]
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry
for sysfs.  To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed
prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs: sysfs_add_one WARNs with full path to duplicate filename

As a debugging aid, it can be useful to know the full path to a
duplicate file being created in sysfs.

We now will display warnings such as:

	sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/foo'

when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' in the sysfs
root, or:

	sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/pci/slots/5/foo'

when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' under a
given directory in sysfs.

The path displayed is always a relative path to sysfs_root. The
leading '/' in the path name refers to the sysfs_root mount
point, and should not be confused with the "real" '/'.

Thanks to Alex Williamson for essentially writing sysfs_pathname.

Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a
directory inode is fectched.  sysfs_count_nlink needs to be
called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely
but possible scenario that the root directory is changing
as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in
general to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

SYSFS_MAGIC has been added into magic.h, so only use that definition
in magic.h to avoid potential consistency problem.
Signed-off-by: NQinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Some sysfs binary files don't like having 0 passed to them as a size.
Fix this up at the root by just returning to the vfs if userspace asks
us for a zero sized buffer.

Thanks to Pavel Roskin for pointing this out.
Reported-by: NPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

... and don't bother in callers.  Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.

i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

With this patch all directory fops instances that have a readdir
that doesn't take the BKL are switched to generic_file_llseek.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

It finally dawned on me what the clean fix to sysfs_rename_dir
calling kobject_set_name is.  Move the work into kobject_rename
where it belongs.  The callers serialize us anyway so this is
safe.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Because they can be, and because code like this produces a warning if
they're not:

struct device_attribute dev_attr;

sysfs_notify(&kobj, NULL, dev_attr.attr.name);
Signed-off-by: NTrent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

As inode creation is protected by sysfs_mutex, ilookup5_nowait()
always either fails to find at all or finds one which is fully
initialized, so using ilookup5_nowait() or ilookup5() doesn't make any
difference.  Switch to ilookup5() as it's planned to be removed.  This
change also makes lookup return value handling a bit simpler.

This change was suggested by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@hera.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:27:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> and it's working fine on most boxes. One testbox found this new locking
> scenario:
>
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
> EDAC DEBUG: MC0: i82860_check()
>
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> 2.6.27-rc6-tip #1
> -------------------------------------------------------
> X/4873 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&bb->mutex){--..}, at: [<c020ba20>] mmap+0x40/0xa0
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c0125a1e>] sys_mmap2+0x8e/0xc0
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>
>
> the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
>
> -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){----}:
>        [<c017dc96>] validate_chain+0xa96/0xf50
>        [<c017ef2b>] __lock_acquire+0x2cb/0x5b0
>        [<c017f299>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>        [<c01aa8fb>] might_fault+0x6b/0x90
>        [<c040b618>] copy_to_user+0x38/0x60
>        [<c020bcfb>] read+0xfb/0x170
>        [<c01c09a5>] vfs_read+0x95/0x110
>        [<c01c1443>] sys_pread64+0x63/0x80
>        [<c012146f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x43
>        [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
>
> -> #0 (&bb->mutex){--..}:
>        [<c017d8b7>] validate_chain+0x6b7/0xf50
>        [<c017ef2b>] __lock_acquire+0x2cb/0x5b0
>        [<c017f299>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>        [<c0d6f2ab>] __mutex_lock_common+0xab/0x3c0
>        [<c0d6f698>] mutex_lock_nested+0x38/0x50
>        [<c020ba20>] mmap+0x40/0xa0
>        [<c01b111e>] mmap_region+0x14e/0x450
>        [<c01b170f>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ef/0x310
>        [<c0125a3d>] sys_mmap2+0xad/0xc0
>        [<c012146f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x43
>        [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> 1 lock held by X/4873:
>  #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c0125a1e>] sys_mmap2+0x8e/0xc0
>
> stack backtrace:
> Pid: 4873, comm: X Not tainted 2.6.27-rc6-tip #1
>  [<c017cd09>] print_circular_bug_tail+0x79/0xc0
>  [<c017d8b7>] validate_chain+0x6b7/0xf50
>  [<c017a5b5>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x15/0xb0
>  [<c017ef2b>] __lock_acquire+0x2cb/0x5b0
>  [<c017f299>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>  [<c020ba20>] ? mmap+0x40/0xa0
>  [<c0d6f2ab>] __mutex_lock_common+0xab/0x3c0
>  [<c020ba20>] ? mmap+0x40/0xa0
>  [<c0d6f698>] mutex_lock_nested+0x38/0x50
>  [<c020ba20>] ? mmap+0x40/0xa0
>  [<c020ba20>] mmap+0x40/0xa0
>  [<c01b111e>] mmap_region+0x14e/0x450
>  [<c01afb88>] ? arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown+0xf8/0x160
>  [<c01b170f>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ef/0x310
>  [<c0125a3d>] sys_mmap2+0xad/0xc0
>  [<c012146f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x43
>  [<c0120000>] ? __switch_to+0x130/0x220
>  =======================
> evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 20, Code: 0, Value: 500
> warning: `sudo' uses deprecated v2 capabilities in a way that may be insecure.
>
> i've attached the config.
>
> at first sight it looks like a genuine bug in fs/sysfs/bin.c?

Yes, it is a real bug by the looks. bin.c takes bb->mutex under mmap_sem
when it is mmapped, and then does its copy_*_user under bb->mutex too.

Here is a basic fix for the sysfs lor.


From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex  is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.

In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.

So:
 - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
   and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
   notify on and hold it in an md structure.
 - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
   can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Print the name of the last-accessed sysfs file when we oops, to help track
down oopses which occur in sysfs store/read handlers.  Because these oopses
tend to not leave any trace of the offending code in the stack traces.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes
part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.  Also, with this,
one fo the if() sections collapses entirely into the WARN().
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
Signed-off-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs_chmod_file() calls notify_change() to change the permission bits
on a sysfs file.  Replace with explicit call to sysfs_setattr() and
fsnotify_change().

This is equivalent, except that security_inode_setattr() is not
called.  This function is called by drivers, so the security checks do
not make any sense.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It is possible that the entry in sysfs already exists, one case of this is
when a network device is renamed to bonding_masters. Anyway, in this case
the proper error path is for device_rename to return an error code, not to
generate bogus backtrace and errors.

Also, to avoid possible races, the create link should be done before the
remove link. This makes a device rename atomic operation like other renames.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

sysfs allows attribute files to be truncated, e.g. using ftruncate(), with the
expected effect on their inode.   For most attributes, this doesn't change the
"real" size of the file i.e. how much can be read from it.  However, the
parameter validation for reading and writing binary attribute files is based
on the inode size and not the size specified in the file's bin_attribute, so it
can be broken by this. For example, if we try using dd to write to such a file:

# pwd
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:08:00.0
# ls -l config
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Feb  1 17:35 config
# dd if=/dev/zero of=config bs=4 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# ls -l config
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb  1 17:50 config
# dd if=/dev/zero of=config bs=4 count=1 seek=128
dd: writing `config': No space left on device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out

Also, after truncation to 0, parameter validation for read and write is
disabled.  Most bin_attribute read and write methods also validate the size and
offset, but for some this will allow out-of-range access.  This may be a
security issue, though access to such files is often limited to root.  In any
case, the validation should remain for safety's sake!)

This was previously reported in Bugzilla as bug 9867.

sysfs should ignore size changes or else refuse them (by returning -EINVAL).
This patch makes it ignore them.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a new BDI capability flag: BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB.  If this flag is
set, then don't update the per-bdi writeback stats from
test_set_page_writeback() and test_clear_page_writeback().

Misc cleanups:

 - convert bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() and friends to static inline functions
 - create a flag that includes all three dirty/writeback related flags,
   since almst all users will want to have them toghether
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We have a problem in scsi_transport_spi in that we need to customise
not only the visibility of the attributes, but also their mode.  Fix
this by making the is_visible() callback return a mode, with 0
indicating is not visible.

Also add a sysfs_update_group() API to allow us to change either the
visibility or mode of the files at any time on the fly.
Acked-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After an experimental deletion of the unnecessary inclusion of
<linux/slab.h> from the header file <linux/percpu.h>, the following
files under fs/sysfs were exposed as needing to explicitly include
<linux/slab.h>.
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Allow callers of sysfs_remove_link() to pass a NULL kobj, in which case
sysfs_root will be used as the parent directory. This allows us to tear down
top level symlinks created via sysfs_create_link(), which already has
similar handling of a NULL parent object.
Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Try to find the culprit who caused
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150

Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It's possible that the caller of sysfs_remove_group messed up and passed in an attribute group that was not really registered to this kobject.  But don't panic for such a foolish error, spit out a warning about what happened, and continue on our way safely.

Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>