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2020-10-02sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs outputJoe Perches
Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf. sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the PAGE_SIZE buffer length. Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done. Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done. Validate the output buffer argument to be page aligned. Validate the offset len argument to be within the PAGE_SIZE buf. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/884235202216d464d61ee975f7465332c86f76b2.1600285923.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-05Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdmaLinus Torvalds
Pull rdma updates from Jason Gunthorpe: "A more active cycle than most of the recent past, with a few large, long discussed works this time. The RNBD block driver has been posted for nearly two years now, and flowing through RDMA due to it also introducing a new ULP. The removal of FMR has been a recurring discussion theme for a long time. And the usual smattering of features and bug fixes. Summary: - Various small driver bugs fixes in rxe, mlx5, hfi1, and efa - Continuing driver cleanups in bnxt_re, hns - Big cleanup of mlx5 QP creation flows - More consistent use of src port and flow label when LAG is used and a mlx5 implementation - Additional set of cleanups for IB CM - 'RNBD' network block driver and target. This is a network block RDMA device specific to ionos's cloud environment. It brings strong multipath and resiliency capabilities. - Accelerated IPoIB for HFI1 - QP/WQ/SRQ ioctl migration for uverbs, and support for multiple async fds - Support for exchanging the new IBTA defiend ECE data during RDMA CM exchanges - Removal of the very old and insecure FMR interface from all ULPs and drivers. FRWR should be preferred for at least a decade now" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (247 commits) RDMA/cm: Spurious WARNING triggered in cm_destroy_id() RDMA/mlx5: Return ECE DC support RDMA/mlx5: Don't rely on FW to set zeros in ECE response RDMA/mlx5: Return an error if copy_to_user fails IB/hfi1: Use free_netdev() in hfi1_netdev_free() RDMA/hns: Uninitialized variable in modify_qp_init_to_rtr() RDMA/core: Move and rename trace_cm_id_create() IB/hfi1: Fix hfi1_netdev_rx_init() error handling RDMA: Remove 'max_map_per_fmr' RDMA: Remove 'max_fmr' RDMA/core: Remove FMR device ops RDMA/rdmavt: Remove FMR memory registration RDMA/mthca: Remove FMR support for memory registration RDMA/mlx4: Remove FMR support for memory registration RDMA/i40iw: Remove FMR leftovers RDMA/bnxt_re: Remove FMR leftovers RDMA/mlx5: Remove FMR leftovers RDMA/core: Remove FMR pool API RDMA/rds: Remove FMR support for memory registration RDMA/srp: Remove support for FMR memory registration ...
2020-05-17sysfs: export sysfs_remove_file_self()Jack Wang
Function is going to be used in transport over RDMA module in subsequent patches, so export it to GPL modules. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511135131.27580-2-danil.kipnis@cloud.ionos.com Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [jwang: extend the commit message] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
2020-04-20docs: filesystems: fix renamed referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Some filesystem references got broken by a previous patch series I submitted. Address those. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # fs/affs/Kconfig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57318c53008dbda7f6f4a5a9e5787f4d37e8565a.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-26sysfs: add sysfs_change_owner()Christian Brauner
Add a helper to change the owner of sysfs objects. This function will be used to correctly account for kobject ownership changes, e.g. when moving network devices between network namespaces. This mirrors how a kobject is added through driver core which in its guts is done via kobject_add_internal() which in summary creates the main directory via create_dir(), populates that directory with the groups associated with the ktype of the kobject (if any) and populates the directory with the basic attributes associated with the ktype of the kobject (if any). These are the basic steps that are associated with adding a kobject in sysfs. Any additional properties are added by the specific subsystem itself (not by driver core) after it has registered the device. So for the example of network devices, a network device will e.g. register a queue subdirectory under the basic sysfs directory for the network device and than further subdirectories within that queues subdirectory. But that is all specific to network devices and they call the corresponding sysfs functions to do that directly when they create those queue objects. So anything that a subsystem adds outside of what driver core does must also be changed by it (That's already true for removal of files it created outside of driver core.) and it's the same for ownership changes. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-02-26sysfs: add sysfs_link_change_owner()Christian Brauner
Add a helper to change the owner of a sysfs link. This function will be used to correctly account for kobject ownership changes, e.g. when moving network devices between network namespaces. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-02-26sysfs: add sysfs_file_change_owner()Christian Brauner
Add helpers to change the owner of a sysfs files. This function will be used to correctly account for kobject ownership changes, e.g. when moving network devices between network namespaces. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-08sysfs: remove unused include of kernfs-internal.hOndrej Mosnacek
This include is not needed (fs/sysfs/file.c builds just fine without it). Remove it. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-18sysfs: fix blank line coding style warningStephen Martin
Fixed a coding style issue. Signed-off-by: Stephen Martin <lockwood@opperline.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-07sysfs: convert BUG_ON to WARN_ONGreg Kroah-Hartman
It's rude to crash the system just because the developer did something wrong, as it prevents them from usually even seeing what went wrong. So convert the few BUG_ON() calls that have snuck into the sysfs code over the years to WARN_ON() to make it more "friendly". All of these are able to be recovered from, so it makes no sense to crash. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-12-03sysfs: constify sysfs create/remove files harderJani Nikula
Let the passed in array be const (and thus placed in rodata) instead of a mutable array of const pointers. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181004143750.30880-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
2018-08-15Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is mostly updates to the usual drivers: mpt3sas, lpfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas, smartpqi, megaraid_sas, arcmsr. In addition, with the continuing absence of Nic we have target updates for tcmu and target core (all with reviews and acks). The biggest observable change is going to be that we're (again) trying to switch to mulitqueue as the default (a user can still override the setting on the kernel command line). Other major core stuff is the removal of the remaining Microchannel drivers, an update of the internal timers and some reworks of completion and result handling" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (203 commits) scsi: core: use blk_mq_run_hw_queues in scsi_kick_queue scsi: ufs: remove unnecessary query(DM) UPIU trace scsi: qla2xxx: Fix issue reported by static checker for qla2x00_els_dcmd2_sp_done() scsi: aacraid: Spelling fix in comment scsi: mpt3sas: Fix calltrace observed while running IO & reset scsi: aic94xx: fix an error code in aic94xx_init() scsi: st: remove redundant pointer STbuffer scsi: qla2xxx: Update driver version to 10.00.00.08-k scsi: qla2xxx: Migrate NVME N2N handling into state machine scsi: qla2xxx: Save frame payload size from ICB scsi: qla2xxx: Fix stalled relogin scsi: qla2xxx: Fix race between switch cmd completion and timeout scsi: qla2xxx: Fix Management Server NPort handle reservation logic scsi: qla2xxx: Flush mailbox commands on chip reset scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintended Logout scsi: qla2xxx: Fix session state stuck in Get Port DB scsi: qla2xxx: Fix redundant fc_rport registration scsi: qla2xxx: Silent erroneous message scsi: qla2xxx: Prevent sysfs access when chip is down scsi: qla2xxx: Add longer window for chip reset ...
2018-08-02scsi: sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection()Bart Van Assche
Introduce these two functions and export them such that the next patch can add calls to these functions from the SCSI core. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2018-07-29sysfs: Fix regression when adding a file to an existing groupTyler Hicks
Commit 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users") incorrectly changed the argument passed as the parent parameter when calling sysfs_add_file_mode_ns(). This caused some sysfs attribute files to not be added correctly to certain groups. Fixes: 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users") Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Tested-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-20sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary usersDmitry Torokhov
Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root, however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces. For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the container's root and not global root. This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject. Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-20kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gidDmitry Torokhov
This change allows creating kernfs files and directories with arbitrary uid/gid instead of always using GLOBAL_ROOT_UID/GID by extending kernfs_create_dir_ns() and kernfs_create_file_ns() with uid/gid arguments. The "simple" kernfs_create_file() and kernfs_create_dir() are left alone and always create objects belonging to the global root. When creating symlinks ownership (uid/gid) is taken from the target kernfs object. Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-02-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Add a console_msg_format command line option: The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "<log level>[timestamp] text" format. This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs at hands. - Reduce the risk of softlockup: Pass the console owner in a busy loop. This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep. On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the waiter. The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations. Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example, when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too much to flush. There is increasing number of people having problems with printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising direction. - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk(): This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output. This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective. - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier: It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function descriptors and show the real function address. It is done transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now. Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in a special elf section and could be easily detected. - Remove printk_symbol() API: It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API. - Remove redundant memsets: Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg command line option. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits) printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock() printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor() parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference sections: split dereference_function_descriptor() openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext lib: do not use print_symbol() irq debug: do not use print_symbol() sysfs: do not use print_symbol() drivers: do not use print_symbol() x86: do not use print_symbol() unicore32: do not use print_symbol() sh: do not use print_symbol() mn10300: do not use print_symbol() ...
2018-01-23sysfs: use SPDX identifiersGreg Kroah-Hartman
Move the license "mark" of the sysfs files to be in SPDX form, instead of the custom text that it currently is in. This is in a quest to get rid of the 700+ different ways we say "GPLv2" in the kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-05sysfs: do not use print_symbol()Sergey Senozhatsky
print_symbol() is a very old API that has been obsoleted by %pS format specifier in a normal printk() call. Replace print_symbol() with a direct printk("%pS") call. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211125025.2270-11-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> To: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> To: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> To: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> To: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> [pmladek@suse.com: updated commit message] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2017-04-08sysfs: be careful of error returns from ops->show()NeilBrown
ops->show() can return a negative error code. Commit 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.") (in v4.4) caused this to be stored in an unsigned 'size_t' variable, so errors would look like large numbers. As a result, if an error is returned, sysfs_kf_read() will return the value of 'count', typically 4096. Commit 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs") (in v4.8) extended this error to use the unsigned large 'len' as a size for memmove(). Consequently, if ->show returns an error, then the first read() on the sysfs file will return 4096 and could return uninitialized memory to user-space. If the application performs a subsequent read, this will trigger a memmove() with extremely large count, and is likely to crash the machine is bizarre ways. This bug can currently only be triggered by reading from an md sysfs attribute declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC() during the brief period between when mddev_put() deletes an mddev from the ->all_mddevs list, and when mddev_delayed_delete() - which is scheduled on a workqueue - completes. Before this, an error won't be returned by the ->show() After this, the ->show() won't be called. I can reproduce it reliably only by putting delay like usleep_range(500000,700000); early in mddev_delayed_delete(). Then after creating an md device md0 run echo clear > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state; cat /sys/block/md0/md/array_state The bug can be triggered without the usleep. Fixes: 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.") Fixes: 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-31sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrsKonstantin Khlebnikov
Attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read() which returns zero bytes for non-zero offset. This breaks script checkarray in mdadm tool in debian where /bin/sh is 'dash' because its builtin 'read' reads only one byte at a time. Script gets 'i' instead of 'idle' when reads current action from /sys/block/$dev/md/sync_action and as a result does nothing. This patch adds trivial implementation of partial read: generate whole string and move required part into buffer head. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Fixes: 4ef67a8c95f3 ("sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.") Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787950 Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.19+ Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.NeilBrown
attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read() which ignores the 'count' arg. So a 1-byte read request can return more bytes than that. This is seen with the 'dash' shell when 'read' is used on some 'md' sysfs attributes. So only return the 'min' of count and the attribute length. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-06-01fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readersVladimir Zapolskiy
If count == 0 bytes are requested by a reader, sysfs_kf_bin_read() deliberately returns 0 without passing a potentially harmful value to some externally defined underlying battr->read() function. However in case of (pos == size && count) the next clause always sets count to 0 and this value is handed over to battr->read(). The change intends to make obsolete (and remove later) a redundant sanity check in battr->read(), if it is present, or add more protection to struct bin_attribute users, who does not care about input arguments. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-02-13kernfs: remove KERNFS_STATIC_NAMETejun Heo
When a new kernfs node is created, KERNFS_STATIC_NAME is used to avoid making a separate copy of its name. It's currently only used for sysfs attributes whose filenames are required to stay accessible and unchanged. There are rare exceptions where these names are allocated and formatted dynamically but for the vast majority of cases they're consts in the rodata section. Now that kernfs is converted to use kstrdup_const() and kfree_const(), there's little point in keeping KERNFS_STATIC_NAME around. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-11-07sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.NeilBrown
To match the previous patch which used the pre-alloc buffer for writes, this patch causes reads to use the same buffer. This is not strictly necessary as the current seq_read() will allocate on first read, so user-space can trigger the required pre-alloc. But consistency is valuable. The read function is somewhat simpler than seq_read() and, for example, does not support reading from an offset into the file: reads must be at the start of the file. As seq_read() does not use the prealloc buffer, ->seq_show is incompatible with ->prealloc and caused an EINVAL return from open(). sysfs code which calls into kernfs always chooses the correct function. As the buffer is shared with writes and other reads, the mutex is extended to cover the copy_to_user. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.NeilBrown
md/raid allows metadata management to be performed in user-space. A various times, particularly on device failure, the metadata needs to be updated before further writes can be permitted. This means that the user-space program which updates metadata much not block on writeout, and so must not allocate memory. mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) and pre-allocation can avoid all memory allocation issues for user-memory, but that does not help kernel memory. Several kernel objects can be pre-allocated. e.g. files opened before any writes to the array are permitted. However some kernel allocation happens in places that cannot be pre-allocated. In particular, writes to sysfs files (to tell md that it can now allow writes to the array) allocate a buffer using GFP_KERNEL. This patch allows attributes to be marked as "PREALLOC". In that case the maximal buffer is allocated when the file is opened, and then used on each write instead of allocating a new buffer. As the same buffer is now shared for all writes on the same file description, the mutex is extended to cover full use of the buffer including the copy_from_user(). The new __ATTR_PREALLOC() 'or's a new flag in to the 'mode', which is inspected by sysfs_add_file_mode_ns() to determine if the file should be marked as requiring prealloc. Despite the comment, we *do* use ->seq_show together with ->prealloc in this patch. The next patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file sizeVladimir Zapolskiy
According to the user expectations common utilities like dd or sh redirection operator > should work correctly over binary files from sysfs. At the moment doing excessive write can not be completed: write(1, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 4 write(1, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 0 write(1, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 0 write(1, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 0 ... Fix the problem by returning EFBIG described in man 2 write. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-20sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroedTejun Heo
13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files") switched sysfs from custom read implementation to seq_file to enable later transition to kernfs. After the change, the buffer passed to ->show() is acquired through seq_get_buf(); unfortunately, this introduces a subtle behavior change. Before the commit, the buffer passed to ->show() was always zero as it was allocated using get_zeroed_page(). Because seq_file doesn't clear buffers on allocation and neither does seq_get_buf(), after the commit, depending on the behavior of ->show(), we may end up exposing uninitialized data to userland thus possibly altering userland visible behavior and leaking information. Fix it by explicitly clearing the buffer. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ron <ron@debian.org> Fixes: 13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-16sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()Tejun Heo
All device_schedule_callback_owner() users are converted to use device_remove_file_self(). Remove now unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-03-25Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
{sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()" This reverts commit d1ba277e79889085a2faec3b68b91ce89c63f888. As reported by Stephen, this patch breaks linux-next as a ppc patch suddenly (after 2 years) started using this old api call. So revert it for now, it will go away in 3.15-rc2 when we can change the PPC call to the new api. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-07sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()Tejun Heo
All device_schedule_callback_owner() users are converted to use device_remove_file_self(). Remove now unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-07kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappersTejun Heo
Sometimes it's necessary to implement a node which wants to delete nodes including itself. This isn't straightforward because of kernfs active reference. While a file operation is in progress, an active reference is held and kernfs_remove() waits for all such references to drain before completing. For a self-deleting node, this is a deadlock as kernfs_remove() ends up waiting for an active reference that itself is sitting on top of. This currently is worked around in the sysfs layer using sysfs_schedule_callback() which makes such removals asynchronous. While it works, it's rather cumbersome and inherently breaks synchronicity of the operation - the file operation which triggered the operation may complete before the removal is finished (or even started) and the removal may fail asynchronously. If a removal operation is immmediately followed by another operation which expects the specific name to be available (e.g. removal followed by rename onto the same name), there's no way to make the latter operation reliable. The thing is there's no inherent reason for this to be asynchrnous. All that's necessary to do this synchronous is a dedicated operation which drops its own active ref and deactivates self. This patch implements kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers in sysfs and driver core. kernfs_remove_self() is to be called from one of the file operations, drops the active ref the task is holding, removes the self node, and restores active ref to the dead node so that the ref is balanced afterwards. __kernfs_remove() is updated so that it takes an early exit if the target node is already fully removed so that the active ref restored by kernfs_remove_self() after removal doesn't confuse the deactivation path. This makes implementing self-deleting nodes very easy. The normal removal path doesn't even need to be changed to use kernfs_remove_self() for the self-deleting node. The method can invoke kernfs_remove_self() on itself before proceeding the normal removal path. kernfs_remove() invoked on the node by the normal deletion path will simply be ignored. This will replace sysfs_schedule_callback(). A subtle feature of sysfs_schedule_callback() is that it collapses multiple invocations - even if multiple removals are triggered, the removal callback is run only once. An equivalent effect can be achieved by testing the return value of kernfs_remove_self() - only the one which gets %true return value should proceed with actual deletion. All other instances of kernfs_remove_self() will wait till the enclosing kernfs operation which invoked the winning instance of kernfs_remove_self() finishes and then return %false. This trivially makes all users of kernfs_remove_self() automatically show correct synchronous behavior even when there are multiple concurrent operations - all "echo 1 > delete" instances will finish only after the whole operation is completed by one of the instances. Note that manipulation of active ref is implemented in separate public functions - kernfs_[un]break_active_protection(). kernfs_remove_self() is the only user at the moment but this will be used to cater to more complex cases. v2: For !CONFIG_SYSFS, dummy version kernfs_remove_self() was missing and sysfs_remove_file_self() had incorrect return type. Fix it. Reported by kbuild test bot. v3: kernfs_[un]break_active_protection() separated out from kernfs_remove_self() and exposed as public API. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-13Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
wrappers" This reverts commit 1ae06819c77cff1ea2833c94f8c093fe8a5c79db. Tejun writes: I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series? get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work with the remove_self() like everybody else. IOW, I think the first posting was correct. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-13Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
{sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()" This reverts commit d1ba277e79889085a2faec3b68b91ce89c63f888. Tejun writes: I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series? get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work with the remove_self() like everybody else. IOW, I think the first posting was correct. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-10sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()Tejun Heo
All device_schedule_callback_owner() users are converted to use device_remove_file_self(). Remove now unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-10kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappersTejun Heo
Sometimes it's necessary to implement a node which wants to delete nodes including itself. This isn't straightforward because of kernfs active reference. While a file operation is in progress, an active reference is held and kernfs_remove() waits for all such references to drain before completing. For a self-deleting node, this is a deadlock as kernfs_remove() ends up waiting for an active reference that itself is sitting on top of. This currently is worked around in the sysfs layer using sysfs_schedule_callback() which makes such removals asynchronous. While it works, it's rather cumbersome and inherently breaks synchronicity of the operation - the file operation which triggered the operation may complete before the removal is finished (or even started) and the removal may fail asynchronously. If a removal operation is immmediately followed by another operation which expects the specific name to be available (e.g. removal followed by rename onto the same name), there's no way to make the latter operation reliable. The thing is there's no inherent reason for this to be asynchrnous. All that's necessary to do this synchronous is a dedicated operation which drops its own active ref and deactivates self. This patch implements kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers in sysfs and driver core. kernfs_remove_self() is to be called from one of the file operations, drops the active ref and deactivates using __kernfs_deactivate_self(), removes the self node, and restores active ref to the dead node using __kernfs_reactivate_self() so that the ref is balanced afterwards. __kernfs_remove() is updated so that it takes an early exit if the target node is already fully removed so that the active ref restored by kernfs_remove_self() after removal doesn't confuse the deactivation path. This makes implementing self-deleting nodes very easy. The normal removal path doesn't even need to be changed to use kernfs_remove_self() for the self-deleting node. The method can invoke kernfs_remove_self() on itself before proceeding the normal removal path. kernfs_remove() invoked on the node by the normal deletion path will simply be ignored. This will replace sysfs_schedule_callback(). A subtle feature of sysfs_schedule_callback() is that it collapses multiple invocations - even if multiple removals are triggered, the removal callback is run only once. An equivalent effect can be achieved by testing the return value of kernfs_remove_self() - only the one which gets %true return value should proceed with actual deletion. All other instances of kernfs_remove_self() will wait till the enclosing kernfs operation which invoked the winning instance of kernfs_remove_self() finishes and then return %false. This trivially makes all users of kernfs_remove_self() automatically show correct synchronous behavior even when there are multiple concurrent operations - all "echo 1 > delete" instances will finish only after the whole operation is completed by one of the instances. v2: For !CONFIG_SYSFS, dummy version kernfs_remove_self() was missing and sysfs_remove_file_self() had incorrect return type. Fix it. Reported by kbuild test bot. v3: Updated to use __kernfs_{de|re}activate_self(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-17kernfs: mark static names with KERNFS_STATIC_NAMETejun Heo
Because sysfs used struct attribute which are supposed to stay constant, sysfs didn't copy names when creating regular files. The specified string for name was supposed to stay constant. Such distinction isn't inherent for kernfs. kernfs_create_file[_ns]() should be able to take the same @name as kernfs_create_dir[_ns]() As there can be huge number of sysfs attributes, we still want to be able to use static names for sysfs attributes. This patch renames kernfs_create_file_ns_key() to __kernfs_create_file() and adds @name_is_static parameter so that the caller can explicitly indicate that @name can be used without copying. kernfs is updated to use KERNFS_STATIC_NAME to distinguish static and copied names. This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-11kernfs: s/sysfs/kernfs/ in constantsTejun Heo
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in full conflict mode. Nothing can make the situation any worse. Let's take the chance to name things properly. This patch performs the following renames. * s/SYSFS_DIR/KERNFS_DIR/ * s/SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR/KERNFS_FILE/ * s/SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK/KERNFS_LINK/ * s/SYSFS_{TYPE_FLAGS}/KERNFS_{TYPE_FLAGS}/ * s/SYSFS_FLAG_{FLAG}/KERNFS_{FLAG}/ * s/sysfs_type()/kernfs_type()/ * s/SD_DEACTIVATED_BIAS/KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS/ This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-11kernfs: s/sysfs/kernfs/ in various data structuresTejun Heo
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in full conflict mode. Nothing can make the situation any worse. Let's take the chance to name things properly. This patch performs the following renames. * s/sysfs_open_dirent/kernfs_open_node/ * s/sysfs_open_file/kernfs_open_file/ * s/sysfs_inode_attrs/kernfs_iattrs/ * s/sysfs_addrm_cxt/kernfs_addrm_cxt/ * s/sysfs_super_info/kernfs_super_info/ * s/sysfs_info()/kernfs_info()/ * s/sysfs_open_dirent_lock/kernfs_open_node_lock/ * s/sysfs_open_file_mutex/kernfs_open_file_mutex/ * s/sysfs_of()/kernfs_of()/ This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-11kernfs: drop s_ prefix from kernfs_node membersTejun Heo
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in full conflict mode. Nothing can make the situation any worse. Let's take the chance to name things properly. s_ prefix for kernfs members is used inconsistently and a misnomer now. It's not like kernfs_node is used widely across the kernel making the ability to grep for the members particularly useful. Let's just drop the prefix. This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-11kernfs: s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename its friends accordinglyTejun Heo
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in full conflict mode. Nothing can make the situation any worse. Let's take the chance to name things properly. This patch performs the following renames. * s/sysfs_elem_dir/kernfs_elem_dir/ * s/sysfs_elem_symlink/kernfs_elem_symlink/ * s/sysfs_elem_attr/kernfs_elem_file/ * s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ * s/sd/kn/ in kernfs proper * s/parent_sd/parent/ * s/target_sd/target/ * s/dir_sd/parent/ * s/to_sysfs_dirent()/rb_to_kn()/ * misc renames of local vars when they conflict with the above Because md, mic and gpio dig into sysfs details, this patch ends up modifying them. All are sysfs_dirent renames and trivial. While we can avoid these by introducing a dummy wrapping struct sysfs_dirent around kernfs_node, given the limited usage outside kernfs and sysfs proper, I don't think such workaround is called for. This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any functional difference. - mic / gpio renames were missing. Spotted by kbuild test robot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-10sysfs: bail early from kernfs_file_mmap() to avoid spurious lockdep warningTejun Heo
This is v3.14 fix for the same issue that a8b14744429f ("sysfs: give different locking key to regular and bin files") addresses for v3.13. Due to the extensive kernfs reorganization in v3.14 branch, the same fix couldn't be ported as-is. The v3.13 fix was ignored while merging it into v3.14 branch. 027a485d12e0 ("sysfs: use a separate locking class for open files depending on mmap") assigned different lockdep key to sysfs_open_file->mutex depending on whether the file implements mmap or not in an attempt to avoid spurious lockdep warning caused by merging of regular and bin file paths. While this restored some of the original behavior of using different locks (at least lockdep is concerned) for the different clases of files. The restoration wasn't full because now the lockdep key assignment depends on whether the file has mmap or not instead of whether it's a regular file or not. This means that bin files which don't implement mmap will get assigned the same lockdep class as regular files. This is problematic because file_operations for bin files still implements the mmap file operation and checking whether the sysfs file actually implements mmap happens in the file operation after grabbing @sysfs_open_file->mutex. We still end up adding locking dependency from mmap locking to sysfs_open_file->mutex to the regular file mutex which triggers spurious circular locking warning. For v3.13, a8b14744429f ("sysfs: give different locking key to regular and bin files") fixed it by giving sysfs_open_file->mutex different lockdep keys depending on whether the file is regular or bin instead of whether mmap exists or not; however, due to the way sysfs is now layered behind kernfs, this approach is no longer viable. kernfs can tell whether a sysfs node has mmap implemented or not but can't tell whether a bin file from a regular one. This patch updates kernfs such that kernfs_file_mmap() checks SYSFS_FLAG_HAS_MMAP and bail before grabbing sysfs_open_file->mutex so that it doesn't add spurious locking dependency from mmap to sysfs_open_file->mutex and changes sysfs so that it specifies kernfs_ops->mmap iff the sysfs file implements mmap. Combined, this ensures that sysfs_open_file->mutex is grabbed under mmap path iff the sysfs file actually implements mmap. As sysfs_open_file->mutex is already given a different lockdep key if mmap is implemented, this removes the spurious locking dependency. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20131203184324.GA11320@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: move file core code to fs/kernfs/file.cTejun Heo
Move core file code to fs/kernfs/file.c. fs/sysfs/file.c now contains sysfs kernfs_ops callbacks, sysfs wrappers around kernfs interfaces, and sysfs_schedule_callback(). The respective declarations in fs/sysfs/sysfs.h are moved to fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h. This is pure relocation. v2: Refreshed on top of the v2 of "sysfs, kernfs: prepare read path for kernfs". v3: Refreshed on top of the v3 of "sysfs, kernfs: prepare read path for kernfs". Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs[_find_and]_get() and kernfs_put()Tejun Heo
Introduce kernfs interface for finding, getting and putting sysfs_dirents. * sysfs_find_dirent() is renamed to kernfs_find_ns() and lockdep assertion for sysfs_mutex is added. * sysfs_get_dirent_ns() is renamed to kernfs_find_and_get(). * Macro inline dancing around __sysfs_get/put() are removed and kernfs_get/put() are made proper functions implemented in fs/sysfs/dir.c. While the conversions are mostly equivalent, there's one difference - kernfs_get() doesn't return the input param as its return value. This change is intentional. While passing through the input increases writability in some areas, it is unnecessary and has been shown to cause confusion regarding how the last ref is handled. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: revamp sysfs_dirent active_ref lockdep annotationTejun Heo
Currently, sysfs_dirent active_ref lockdep annotation uses attribute->[s]key as the lockdep key, which forces kernfs_create_file_ns() to assume that sysfs_dirent->priv is pointing to a struct attribute which may not be true for non-sysfs users. This patch restructures the lockdep annotation such that * kernfs_ops contains lockdep_key which is used by default for files created kernfs_create_file_ns(). * kernfs_create_file_ns_key() is introduced which takes an extra @key argument. The created file will use the specified key for active_ref lockdep annotation. If NULL is specified, lockdep for the file is disabled. * sysfs_add_file_mode_ns() is updated to use kernfs_create_file_ns_key() with the appropriate key from the attribute or NULL if ignore_lockdep is set. This makes the lockdep annotation properly contained in kernfs while allowing sysfs to cleanly keep its current behavior. This patch doesn't introduce any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs_notify()Tejun Heo
Introduce kernfs interface to wake up poll(2) which takes and returns sysfs_dirents. sysfs_notify_dirent() is renamed to kernfs_notify() and sysfs_notify() is updated so that it doesn't directly grab sysfs_mutex but acquires the target sysfs_dirents using sysfs_get_dirent(). sysfs_notify_dirent() is reimplemented as a dumb inline wrapper around kernfs_notify(). This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: add kernfs_ops->seq_{start|next|stop}()Tejun Heo
kernfs_ops currently only supports single_open() behavior which is pretty restrictive. Add optional callbacks ->seq_{start|next|stop}() which, when implemented, are invoked for seq_file traversal. This allows full seq_file functionality for kernfs users. This currently doesn't have any user and doesn't change any behavior. v2: Refreshed on top of the updated "sysfs, kernfs: prepare read path for kernfs". Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: remove sysfs_add_one()Tejun Heo
sysfs_add_one() is a wrapper around __sysfs_add_one() which prints out duplicate name warning if __sysfs_add_one() fails with -EEXIST. The previous kernfs conversions moved all dup warnings to sysfs interface functions and sysfs_add_one() doesn't have any user left. Remove sysfs_add_one() and update __sysfs_add_one() to take its name. This patch doesn't make any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs_create_file[_ns]()Tejun Heo
Introduce kernfs interface to create a file which takes and returns sysfs_dirents. The actual file creation part is separated out from sysfs_add_file_mode_ns() into kernfs_create_file_ns(). The former now only decides the kernfs_ops to use and the file's size and invokes the latter. This patch doesn't introduce behavior changes. v2: Dummy implementation for !CONFIG_SYSFS updated to return -ENOSYS. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29sysfs, kernfs: remove SYSFS_KOBJ_BIN_ATTRTejun Heo
After kernfs_ops and sysfs_dirent->s_attr.size addition, the distinction between SYSFS_KOBJ_BIN_ATTR and SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR is only necessary while creating files to decide which kernfs_ops to use. Afterwards, they behave exactly the same. This patch removes SYSFS_KOBJ_BIN_ATTR along with sysfs_is_bin(). sysfs_add_file[_mode_ns]() are updated to take bool @is_bin instead of @type. This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes. This completely isolates the distinction between the two sysfs file types in the sysfs layer proper. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>