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@ 2015-01-13 12:00 Johan Hovold
  2015-01-13 12:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] gpio: sysfs: fix gpio-chip device-attribute leak Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2015-01-13 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Walleij; +Cc: Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold

Here are three more patches for 3.19 fixing some long-standing memory
leaks and races (with userspace) in the gpio sysfs-interface
implementation.

The memory leaks are marked for stable, but I'll need to backport them
to pre-3.18 kernels once they are upstream due to commit 0eb4c6c2671c
("gpio: move sysfs support to its own file").

I chose not to mark the final patch for stable as the attribute-creation
race with userspace (e.g. udev rule) is not as critical (and patch a bit
more invasive).

Please note that these patches will cause a conflict with 3511ee7b3312
("gpio: lib-sysfs: Add 'wakeup' attribute") in gpio/devel, which adds
yet another device attribute without ever removing it. Unless the commit
in question can be reverted, that leak could be fixed as part of the
merge resolution, I guess.

Johan


Johan Hovold (3):
  gpio: sysfs: fix gpio-chip device-attribute leak
  gpio: sysfs: fix gpio device-attribute leak
  gpio: sysfs: fix gpio attribute-creation race

 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h       |  1 +
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

-- 
2.0.5


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2015-01-25  9:25   ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-01-13 12:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] gpio: sysfs: fix gpio " Johan Hovold
2015-01-25  9:27   ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-01-25  9:30     ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-01-13 12:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] gpio: sysfs: fix gpio attribute-creation race Johan Hovold
2015-01-25  9:33   ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-01-25 10:16     ` Johan Hovold
2015-01-15 16:33 ` [PATCH 0/3] gpio: sysfs: fix attribute leaks and races Linus Walleij

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