[PATCH v2 0/4] PTP attribute handling cleanup

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Feb 14 2017 - 13:23:55 EST


PTP core was creating some attributes, such as "period" and "fifo", and the
entire "pins" attribute group, after creating class deevice, which creates
a race for userspace: uevent may arrive before all attributes are created.

This series of patches switches PTP to use is_visible() to control
visibility of attributes in a group, and device_create_with_groups() to
ensure that attributes are created before we notify userspace of a new
device.

v2:
- added Richard's acked-by to patch #1
- removed use of kmalloc_array in favor of kcalloc in patch #2 at
Richard's request
- added a cover letter

v1:
- initial patch set

Dmitry Torokhov (4):
ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register()
ptp: use kcalloc when allocating arrays
ptp: use is_visible method to hide unused attributes
ptp: create "pins" together with the rest of attributes

drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 22 +++---
drivers/ptp/ptp_private.h | 7 +-
drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c | 167 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)

Thanks.

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Dmitry