kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/bus.c, branch v4.14.78

driver core: bus: Fix a potential double free

2017-08-31T16:57:30+00:00

The .release function of driver_ktype is 'driver_release()'. This function frees the container_of this kobject. So, this memory must not be freed explicitly in the error handling path of 'bus_add_driver()'. Otherwise a double free will occur. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: remove struct bus_type.dev_attrs

2017-06-12T14:18:37+00:00

Now that all in-kernel users of bus_type.dev_attrs have been converted to use dev_groups instead, the dev_attrs field, and logic surrounding it, can be removed. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: support passing in variables for synthetic uevents

2017-05-25T16:30:51+00:00

This patch makes it possible to pass additional arguments in addition to uevent action name when writing /sys/.../uevent attribute. These additional arguments are then inserted into generated synthetic uevent as additional environment variables. Before, we were not able to pass any additional uevent environment variables for synthetic uevents. This made it hard to identify such uevents properly in userspace to make proper distinction between genuine uevents originating from kernel and synthetic uevents triggered from userspace. Also, it was not possible to pass any additional information which would make it possible to optimize and change the way the synthetic uevents are processed back in userspace based on the originating environment of the triggering action in userspace. With the extra additional variables, we are able to pass through this extra information needed and also it makes it possible to synchronize with such synthetic uevents as they can be clearly identified back in userspace. The format for writing the uevent attribute is following: ACTION [UUID [KEY=VALUE ...] There's no change in how "ACTION" is recognized - it stays the same ("add", "change", "remove"). The "ACTION" is the only argument required to generate synthetic uevent, the rest of arguments, that this patch adds support for, are optional. The "UUID" is considered as transaction identifier so it's possible to use the same UUID value for one or more synthetic uevents in which case we logically group these uevents together for any userspace listeners. The "UUID" is expected to be in "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" format where "x" is a hex digit. The value appears in uevent as "SYNTH_UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" environment variable. The "KEY=VALUE" pairs can contain alphanumeric characters only. It's possible to define zero or more more pairs - each pair is then delimited by a space character " ". Each pair appears in synthetic uevents as "SYNTH_ARG_KEY=VALUE" environment variable. That means the KEY name gains "SYNTH_ARG_" prefix to avoid possible collisions with existing variables. To pass the "KEY=VALUE" pairs, it's also required to pass in the "UUID" part for the synthetic uevent first. If "UUID" is not passed in, the generated synthetic uevent gains "SYNTH_UUID=0" environment variable automatically so it's possible to identify this situation in userspace when reading generated uevent and so we can still make a difference between genuine and synthetic uevents. Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: bus: use to_subsys_private and to_device_private_bus

2016-02-10T01:25:27+00:00

Use to_subsys_private() and to_device_private_bus() instead of open-coding. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: bus: use list_for_each_entry*

2016-02-10T01:25:27+00:00

Use list_for_each_entry*() instead of list_for_each*() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: add asynchronous probing support for drivers

2015-05-20T07:25:24+00:00

Some devices take a long time when initializing, and not all drivers are suited to initialize their devices when they are open. For example, input drivers need to interrogate their devices in order to publish device's capabilities before userspace will open them. When such drivers are compiled into kernel they may stall entire kernel initialization. This change allows drivers request for their probe functions to be called asynchronously during driver and device registration (manual binding is still synchronous). Because async_schedule is used to perform asynchronous calls module loading will still wait for the probing to complete. Note that the end goal is to make the probing asynchronous by default, so annotating drivers with PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS is a temporary measure that allows us to speed up boot process while we validating and fixing the rest of the drivers and preparing userspace. This change is based on earlier patch by "Luis R. Rodriguez" Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: bus: Goto appropriate labels on failure in bus_add_device

2015-03-25T12:40:31+00:00

It is not necessary to call device_remove_groups() when device_add_groups() fails. The group added by device_add_groups() should be removed if sysfs_create_link() fails. Fixes: fa6fdb33b486 ("driver core: bus_type: add dev_groups") Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe

2014-11-07T19:17:27+00:00

bus_find_device_by_name() acquires a device reference which is never released. This results in an object leak, which on older kernels results in failure to release all resources of PCI devices. libvirt uses drivers_probe to re-attach devices to the host after assignment and is therefore a common trigger for this leak. Example: # cd /sys/bus/pci/ # dmesg -C # echo 1 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs # echo 0 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs # dmesg | grep 01:10 pci 0000:01:10.0: [8086:10ca] type 00 class 0x020000 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_add_internal: parent: '0000:00:01.0', set: 'devices' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_uevent_env kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_uevent_env kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_uevent_env kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): kobject_cleanup, parent (null) kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79cd0a8): calling ktype release kobject: '0000:01:10.0': free name [kobject freed as expected] # dmesg -C # echo 1 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs # echo 0000:01:10.0 > drivers_probe # echo 0 > devices/0000\:01\:00.0/sriov_numvfs # dmesg | grep 01:10 pci 0000:01:10.0: [8086:10ca] type 00 class 0x020000 kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_add_internal: parent: '0000:00:01.0', set: 'devices' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_uevent_env kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_uevent_env kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0' kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): kobject_uevent_env kobject: '0000:01:10.0' (ffff8801d79ce0a8): fill_kobj_path: path = '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:10.0' [no free] Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

2014-02-20T13:54:28+00:00

treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook

2014-02-19T13:58:17+00:00

This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/DocBook. It is because .html and .xml files are generated by make htmldocs, I have to fix a typo within the source files. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina