Re: [PATCH v2] LEDS: fix race between LED device uevent and actual attributes creation

[Florian Fainelli]

Richard,

Any thoughts?

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 18:32:18  Fainelli wrote:
> If we were to dynamically register/unregister leds and have udev or other
> daemons handle the leds class uevents, we would be notified of the adding
>  of a new LED and if the daemon immediately tries to open one of the
>  attributes of the led device, it would fail with a "no such file or
>  directory" error since this the attributes are not yet created. Fix this
>  by switching attributes to be class-wide, such that the driver core will
>  register these attributes with device_add_attrs and then emit the
>  kobject_uevent ADD signal.
> 
> Signed-off-by:  Fainelli <ffainelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> v2:
> - make sure led_class_attrs size is known at compile time
> - terminate led_class_attrs with a proper NULL terminator
> - do not attempt to remove led device attributes twice
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> index 782f958..7b1bba2 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> @@ -72,11 +72,14 @@ static ssize_t led_max_brightness_show(struct device
>  *dev, return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", led_cdev->max_brightness);
>  }
> 
> -static DEVICE_ATTR(brightness, 0644, led_brightness_show,
>  led_brightness_store); -static DEVICE_ATTR(max_brightness, 0444,
>  led_max_brightness_show, NULL); +static struct device_attribute
>  led_class_attrs[] = {
> +	__ATTR(brightness, 0644, led_brightness_show, led_brightness_store),
> +	__ATTR(max_brightness, 0644, led_max_brightness_show, NULL),
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS
> -static DEVICE_ATTR(trigger, 0644, led_trigger_show, led_trigger_store);
> +	__ATTR(trigger, 0644, led_trigger_show, led_trigger_store),
>  #endif
> +	__ATTR_NULL,
> +};
> 
>  /**
>   * led_classdev_suspend - suspend an led_classdev.
> @@ -127,18 +130,11 @@ static int led_resume(struct device *dev)
>   */
>  int led_classdev_register(struct device *parent, struct led_classdev
>  *led_cdev) {
> -	int rc;
> -
>  	led_cdev->dev = device_create(leds_class, parent, 0, led_cdev,
>  				      "%s", led_cdev->name);
>  	if (IS_ERR(led_cdev->dev))
>  		return PTR_ERR(led_cdev->dev);
> 
> -	/* register the attributes */
> -	rc = device_create_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_brightness);
> -	if (rc)
> -		goto err_out;
> -
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS
>  	init_rwsem(&led_cdev->trigger_lock);
>  #endif
> @@ -150,17 +146,9 @@ int led_classdev_register(struct device *parent,
>  struct led_classdev *led_cdev) if (!led_cdev->max_brightness)
>  		led_cdev->max_brightness = LED_FULL;
> 
> -	rc = device_create_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_max_brightness);
> -	if (rc)
> -		goto err_out_attr_max;
> -
>  	led_update_brightness(led_cdev);
> 
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS
> -	rc = device_create_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_trigger);
> -	if (rc)
> -		goto err_out_led_list;
> -
>  	led_trigger_set_default(led_cdev);
>  #endif
> 
> @@ -168,18 +156,8 @@ int led_classdev_register(struct device *parent,
>  struct led_classdev *led_cdev) led_cdev->name);
> 
>  	return 0;
> -
> -#ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS
> -err_out_led_list:
> -	device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_max_brightness);
> -#endif
> -err_out_attr_max:
> -	device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_brightness);
> -	list_del(&led_cdev->node);
> -err_out:
> -	device_unregister(led_cdev->dev);
> -	return rc;
>  }
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(led_classdev_register);
> 
>  /**
> @@ -190,10 +168,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(led_classdev_register);
>   */
>  void led_classdev_unregister(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
>  {
> -	device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_max_brightness);
> -	device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_brightness);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS
> -	device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_trigger);
>  	down_write(&led_cdev->trigger_lock);
>  	if (led_cdev->trigger)
>  		led_trigger_set(led_cdev, NULL);
> @@ -215,6 +190,7 @@ static int __init leds_init(void)
>  		return PTR_ERR(leds_class);
>  	leds_class->suspend = led_suspend;
>  	leds_class->resume = led_resume;
> +	leds_class->dev_attrs = led_class_attrs;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
> 
> 
> 
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