kernel-ark/fs/sysfs
Alan Stern e7b0d26a86 [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration
This patch (as869) reinstates the mutual exclusion between sysfs
attribute method calls and attribute unregistration.  The
previously-reported deadlocks have been fixed, and this exclusion is
by far the simplest way to avoid races during driver unbinding.

The check for orphaned read-buffers has been moved down slightly, so
that the remainder of a partially-read buffer will still be available
to userspace even after the attribute has been unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-15 15:29:26 -07:00
..
bin.c sysfs: kobject_put cleanup 2007-02-07 10:37:13 -08:00
dir.c [PATCH] Fix 2.6.21 rfcomm lockups 2007-03-06 09:30:24 -08:00
file.c [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration 2007-03-15 15:29:26 -07:00
group.c sysfs: Shadow directory support 2007-02-07 10:37:14 -08:00
inode.c [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration 2007-03-15 15:29:26 -07:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mount.c [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const 2007-02-12 09:48:47 -08:00
symlink.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
sysfs.h sysfs: move struct sysfs_dirent to private header 2007-02-23 14:52:09 -08:00