Re: sysfs permissions on dynamic attributes (led delay_on and delay_off)

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 01:08:55PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Colin Cross wrote:
> > The delay_on and delay_off files could easily override the values from
> > the trigger.
> > 
> > Sending a KOBJ_CHANGE uevent is not a great solution, it's still
> > horribly racy in userspace.  This script would never work reliably:
> > echo timer > trigger
> > echo 1000 > delay_on
> > echo 1000 > delay_off
> > echo 255 > brightness
> 
> Yes, and the proper fix is to instead use a fully async userspace based on
> uevent callbacks.  Nasty as all hell.  Or the quick fix, which is to wait
> for the system to settle after every sysfs operation that could create new
> sysfs nodes.
> 
> You could make sure that (1) no sysfs operation will return control to
> userspace until it is complete, so you'd have all new sysfs nodes available
> at the time the first echo returns [I believe it already works like that],

Yes it does, what's the problem here?

> and (2) either enhance sysfs to create nodes with the desired ownership and
> permissions

>From the kernel, you can also do this today, if you know it's "safe" for
users to read/write them.

greg k-h