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From: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH]Fix to the new sysfs bin file support
Date: 05 Mar 2003 18:38:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046918323.2915.45.camel@vmhack> (raw)

I happen to notice the new binary file support in sysfs and had to take
for a spin.  If I understand this correct my write file will need to
allocate the buffer->data, but then I have no way of freeing that memory
since I don't get a release callback.

Here is a patch that:
* makes sysfs cleanup the buffer->data allocated by the attribute write
functions
* fixes a bug that causes the kernel to oops when somebody attempts to
write to the file.

BTW, would you be totally opposed to a patch that added open, release,
and ioctl to the list of functions supported by sysfs binary files?

Another question... How would a driver know that the various write and
read calls are coming from the same open, or would there be a way for a
driver to make it so that only one thing can open the sysfs file at a
time?
    --rustyl

--- fs/sysfs/bin.c.orig	2003-03-05 18:33:44.000000000 -0800
+++ fs/sysfs/bin.c	2003-03-05 18:34:01.000000000 -0800
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
 		ret = count;
 	}
  Done:
+	if (buffer && buffer->data) {
+		kfree(buffer->data);
+		buffer->data = NULL;
+	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@
 static int fill_write(struct file * file, const char * userbuf, 
 		      struct sysfs_bin_buffer * buffer)
 {
-	return copy_from_user(buffer,userbuf,buffer->count) ?
+	return copy_from_user(buffer->data,userbuf,buffer->count) ?
 		-EFAULT : 0;
 }
 




             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-06  2:38 Rusty Lynch [this message]
2003-03-06 15:34 ` [PATCH]Fix to the new sysfs bin file support Patrick Mochel
2003-03-06 16:54   ` Rusty Lynch

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