From 26ea12dec0c84133add937455be76d44fe253d85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:15:36 -0400 Subject: kobject: grab an extra reference on kobject->sd to allow duplicate deletes sysfs currently has a rather weird behavior regarding removals. A directory removal would delete all files directly under it but wouldn't recurse into subdirectories, which, while a bit inconsistent, seems to make sense at the first glance as each directory is supposedly associated with a kobject and each kobject can take care of the directory deletion; however, this doesn't really hold as we have groups which can be directories without a kobject associated with it and require explicit deletions. We're in the process of separating out sysfs from kboject / driver core and want a consistent behavior. A removal should delete either only the specified node or everything under it. I think it is helpful to support recursive atomic removal and later patches will implement it. Such change means that a sysfs_dirent associated with kobject may be deleted before the kobject itself is removed if one of its ancestor gets removed before it. As sysfs_remove_dir() puts the base ref, we may end up with dangling pointer on descendants. This can be solved by holding an extra reference on the sd from kobject. Acquire an extra reference on the associated sysfs_dirent on directory creation and put it after removal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/sysfs') diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index 671868914b5b..105a7e2d1660 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -549,7 +549,12 @@ void sysfs_remove_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd) { struct sysfs_inode_attrs *ps_iattr; - BUG_ON(sd->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED); + /* + * Removal can be called multiple times on the same node. Only the + * first invocation is effective and puts the base ref. + */ + if (sd->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED) + return; sysfs_unlink_sibling(sd); -- cgit v1.2.3