Re: [PATCH 14/14] sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Tue Apr 10 2007 - 10:15:09 EST


On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:18:49 +0900,
Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
> deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
> so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
> often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
> accessing removed modules.
>
> This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
> this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
> backing module from being unloaded.
>
> For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
> following message.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>

You missed some s390 attributes :)

---
arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 2 --
drivers/s390/cio/chp.c | 2 --
drivers/s390/net/qeth_sys.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
@@ -314,7 +314,6 @@ static struct bin_attribute ipl_paramete
.attr = {
.name = "binary_parameter",
.mode = S_IRUGO,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
.size = PAGE_SIZE,
.read = &ipl_parameter_read,
@@ -338,7 +337,6 @@ static struct bin_attribute ipl_scp_data
.attr = {
.name = "scp_data",
.mode = S_IRUGO,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
.size = PAGE_SIZE,
.read = &ipl_scp_data_read,
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/cio/chp.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/s390/cio/chp.c
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ static struct bin_attribute chp_measurem
.attr = {
.name = "measurement_chars",
.mode = S_IRUSR,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
.size = sizeof(struct cmg_chars),
.read = chp_measurement_chars_read,
@@ -217,7 +216,6 @@ static struct bin_attribute chp_measurem
.attr = {
.name = "measurement",
.mode = S_IRUSR,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
.size = sizeof(struct cmg_entry),
.read = chp_measurement_read,
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/net/qeth_sys.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/s390/net/qeth_sys.c
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ static struct attribute_group qeth_osn_d

#define QETH_DEVICE_ATTR(_id,_name,_mode,_show,_store) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_id = { \
- .attr = {.name=__stringify(_name), .mode=_mode, .owner=THIS_MODULE },\
+ .attr = {.name=__stringify(_name), .mode=_mode, },\
.show = _show, \
.store = _store, \
};
-
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