Re: [PATCH] HID: vivaldi: fix sysfs attributes leak

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Mar 01 2022 - 09:31:55 EST


On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> The driver creates the top row map sysfs attribute in input_configured()
> method; unfortunately we do not have a callback that is executed when HID
> interface is unbound, thus we are leaking these sysfs attributes, for
> example when device is disconnected.
>
> To fix it let's switch to managed version of adding sysfs attributes which
> will ensure that they are destroyed when the driver is unbound.
>
> Fixes: 14c9c014babe ("HID: add vivaldi HID driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Compiled only.
>
> drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c b/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c
> index efa6140915f4..42ceb2058a09 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi.c
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void vivaldi_feature_mapping(struct hid_device *hdev,
> static int vivaldi_input_configured(struct hid_device *hdev,
> struct hid_input *hidinput)
> {
> - return sysfs_create_group(&hdev->dev.kobj, &input_attribute_group);
> + return devm_device_add_group(&hdev->dev, &input_attribute_group);
> }
>
> static const struct hid_device_id vivaldi_table[] = {

Applied, thanks Dmitry.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs