Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write()
authorOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:52:44 +0000 (10:52 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:37:13 +0000 (10:37 -0800)
This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs.
It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode.
Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned.
IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free
associated data structures or be unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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