Re: [char-misc-next 2/3] mei: adding sysfs fw_status attribute

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:27:06PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
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> > > > > > > Just to make sure, is this what you're suggesting ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > device->groups = mei_attr_groups
> > > > > > > mei_misc_device.parent = device; ret =
> > > > > > > misc_register(&mei_misc_device);
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, that should work.  If not, please let me know, the code
> > > > > > underwent some changes in 3.11-rc2.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don' t see the file being created.
> > > > > Not sure if the  misc_register setup the parent sysfs as well.
> > > >
> > > > Oops, wait, the parent is already registered, that's not going to
> > > > work, you want to create the files for the device itself that you
> > > > are creating, so set the -
> > > > >groups field for that device.
> > > >
> > > > sorry about that.
> > >
> > > So is this okay to go as  is?
> > 
> > What is "this"?
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> The intentions was to create the sysfs  on a  parent pci device, and
> these are already created .

You can't create attributes on a device you do not "own", that will be
racy and prone to cause big problems (your callback will not with the
"right" device usually, as your parent might not "be" a pci device in
the future...)

> The only reason I wanted do it here as this is true for any parent pci
> device we support currently that registers with mei.
> 
> Either this code ode is still confusing because  I'm  doing something
> wrong here or  your mind Is set on fixing this particular user space
> race issue.

Probably both...

Either way, you can't create sysfs files in a racy way, I'm going
through the whole kernel tree to clean them all up, I'm not going to add
new race conditions today that I need to fix up tomorrow, my patch count
is high enough as it is :)

thanks,

greg k-h