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* drivers: char: misc: Replace printk with pr_err.Varsha Rao2017-04-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | Replace printk with pr_err to fix the checkpatch issue. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* drivers: char: misc: Add blank line after declaration.Varsha Rao2017-04-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | Add a blank line after declaration, to fix the checkpatch issue. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* drivers: char: misc: Add space after ','.Varsha Rao2017-04-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Add space which is required after ',' to follow linux coding style. This patch fixes the checkpatch issue. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* drivers: char: misc: Replace "foo * bar" with "foo *bar".Varsha Rao2017-04-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Remove space after * in pointer type, to follow linux coding style. This patch fixes the following checkpatch issue: ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* char: make misc_deregister a void functionGreg Kroah-Hartman2015-08-051-6/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that actually checked the return value of this function. And all of them really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module was shutting down no matter what. So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from misc_deregister(). If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver. Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong. Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* char: misc: fix error pathSudip Mukherjee2015-07-271-2/+4
| | | | | | | | Lets call remove_proc_entry() in the error path only if we have successfully created "misc" in procfs. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* char: misc: remove redundant ifdefSudip Mukherjee2015-07-271-2/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | The check for CONFIG_PROC_FS is not required as the check is being done in proc_fs.h and incase CONFIG_PROC_FS is not defined then proc_create() is defined as NULL. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* char: misc: restore MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR on device_create() failureVladimir Zapolskiy2015-05-311-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On attempt to register a dynamic minor misc device its minor number is updated to a virtual minor number prior to device_create() call, however on error path misc->minor == MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR is not restored. Following the rule of thumb that a function returning an error must not change the state of the caller, assign MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR back. The problem is met in a sutuation, when subsys_initcall(misc_init) is not yet called and misc_class is not created, but misc_register() modifies statically defined ".minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR", therefore implicitly changing the client's logic on next attempt (e.g. retrying from deferred list) to register a misc device, whose minor number is converted from dynamic to some unknown static one. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* drivers: char: misc.c: remove trailing whitespaceTal Shorer2015-05-241-5/+5
| | | | | | | | Remove trailing whitespace from several lines in drivers/char/misc.c This was done using scripts/cleanfile Signed-off-by: Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* misc: pass miscdevice through file's private_dataTom Van Braeckel2015-04-031-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the miscdevice accessible through the file's private_data. Previously, this was done only when an open() file operation had been registered. If no custom open() file operation was defined, private_data was set to NULL. This subtle quirk was confusing, to the point where kernel code registered *empty* file open operations to have private_data point to the misc device structure and avoid duplicating that logic. And it could easily lead to bugs, where the addition or removal of a custom open() file operation surprisingly changes the initial value of a file's private_data structure. To resolve this, we now place the miscdevice in the file's private_data member unconditionally when open() is called. Signed-off-by: Tom Van Braeckel <tomvanbraeckel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* misc: Add attribute groupsTakashi Iwai2015-03-251-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Add groups field to struct miscdevice for passing the attribute groups at device creation. In this way, the driver can avoid the manual call of device_create_file() after the device registration, which is basically a racy operation, in addition to the reduction of manual device_remove_file() calls. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* char: misc: document behaviour of open()Martin Kepplinger2015-03-251-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | an open syscall now assignes file->private_data to a pointer to the miscdevice structure. This reminds people not to duplicate code if they want this and not to depend on it being NULL. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-131-9/+3Star
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts: - RCU'd vfsmounts handling - new primitives for coredump handling - files_lock is gone - Bruce's delegations handling series - exportfs fixes plus misc stuff all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits) ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL locks: break delegations on any attribute modification locks: break delegations on link locks: break delegations on rename locks: helper functions for delegation breaking locks: break delegations on unlink namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup locks: implement delegations locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup exportfs: better variable name exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect ...
| * consolidate the reassignments of ->f_op in ->open() instancesAl Viro2013-10-251-9/+3Star
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Drivers: char: misc: 'misc_deregister()' changed the 'mutex_unlock' logic ↵Elad Wexler2013-09-261-4/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | upon an error This change improves code readability & is less error-prone. For example: case adding more error paths one should remember to call 'mutex_unlock' Signed-off-by: Elad Wexler <elad.wexler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* drivers/char/misc.c:misc_register(): do not loop on misc_list unconditionallyDae S. Kim2013-02-281-7/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | If the minor number is assigned dynamically, there is no need to search for misc->minor in misc_list, since misc->minor == MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of local `c'] Signed-off-by: Dae S. Kim <dae@velatum.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* switch device_get_devnode() and ->devnode() to umode_t *Al Viro2012-01-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | both callers of device_get_devnode() are only interested in lower 16bits and nobody tries to return anything wider than 16bit anyway. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* llseek: automatically add .llseek fopArnd Bergmann2010-10-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a .llseek pointer. The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek. New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code relies on calling seek on the device file. The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle. Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window. Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic patch that does all this. ===== begin semantic patch ===== // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations, // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default. // // The rules are // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open // - use seq_lseek for sequential files // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos, // but we still want to allow users to call lseek // @ open1 exists @ identifier nested_open; @@ nested_open(...) { <+... nonseekable_open(...) ...+> } @ open exists@ identifier open_f; identifier i, f; identifier open1.nested_open; @@ int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) { <+... ( nonseekable_open(...) | nested_open(...) ) ...+> } @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ write @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ write_no_fpos @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ fops0 @ identifier fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... }; @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier llseek_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .llseek = llseek_f, ... }; @ has_read depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... }; @ has_write depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... }; @ has_open depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... }; // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open //////////////////////////////////////////// @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = nso, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */ }; @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */ }; // use seq_lseek for sequential files ///////////////////////////////////// @ seq depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier sr ~= "seq_read"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = sr, ... +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */ }; // use default_llseek if there is a readdir /////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier readdir_e; @@ // any other fop is used that changes pos struct file_operations fops = { ... .readdir = readdir_e, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */ }; // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read.read_f; @@ // read fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */ }; @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... + .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */ }; // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */ }; ===== End semantic patch ===== Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
* char: add WARN_ON() in misc_deregister()Akinobu Mita2010-08-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | misc_deregister() returns an error only when it attempts to unregister the device that is not registered. This is the driver's bug. Most of the drivers don't check the return value of misc_deregister(). (It is not bad thing because most of kernel *_unregister() API always succeed and do not return value) So it is better to indicate the error by WARN_ON() in misc_deregister(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private dataSamu Onkalo2010-05-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | For misc devices, inode->i_cdev doesn't point to the device drivers own data. Link between file operations and device driver internal data is lost. Pass pointer to misc device struct via file private data for driver open function use. Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* drivers/char/misc.c: use bitmap/bitops functions for dynamic minor number ↵Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo2009-12-151-13/+9Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | allocation Use DECLARE_BITMAP(), find_first_zero_bit(), set_bit() and clear_bit() instead of rewriting code to do it with the minor number dynamic allocation bitmap. We need to invert the bit position to keep the code behaviour of using the last minor numbers first, since we don't have a find_last_zero_bit. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* drivers/char/misc.c: clear allocation bit in minor bitmap when device ↵Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo2009-12-151-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | register fails If there's a failure creating the device (because there's already one with the same name, for example), the current implementation does not clear the bit for the allocated minor and that number is lost for future allocations. Second, the test currently in misc_deregister is broken, since it does not test for the 0 minor. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* misc: remove MAC pmu function declaration from misc device classThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo2009-12-151-2/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | Commit 8c8709334cec803368a432a33e0f2e116d48fe07 has removed the pmu_device_init call from misc_init, but unlike other similar commits, has not removed its declaration. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* drivers: Remove BKL from misc_openThomas Gleixner2009-10-141-4/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | misc_open() is already serialized with misc_mtx. Remove the BKL locking which got there via the BKL pushdown. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <20091010153349.237173041@linutronix.de>
* seq_file: constify seq_operationsJames Morris2009-09-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make all seq_operations structs const, to help mitigate against revectoring user-triggerable function pointers. This is derived from the grsecurity patch, although generated from scratch because it's simpler than extracting the changes from there. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissionsKay Sievers2009-09-191-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.Kay Sievers2009-06-161-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* device create: char: convert device_create_drvdata to device_createGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-10-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the original call to be sane. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* device create: char: convert device_create to device_create_drvdataGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-07-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* misc: cdev lock_kernel() pushdownJonathan Corbet2008-06-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | misc_open() looks fine, but who knows what all of the misc drivers are doing in their open() functions? Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* drivers: use non-racy method for proc entries creationDenis V. Lunev2008-04-291-12/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device()Rafael J. Wysocki2008-04-201-9/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but before it happened, we had introduced the functions device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary, it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the normal device unregistration instead. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Misc: Add possibility to remove misc devices during suspend/resumeRafael J. Wysocki2008-02-051-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Make /proc/misc use seq_list_xxx helpersPavel Emelianov2007-07-161-15/+3Star
| | | | | | | | Simple and stupid - just use the helpers. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* use mutex instead of semaphore for misc char devicesMatthias Kaehlcke2007-05-081-13/+14
| | | | | | | | | The misc character device driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Correct misc_register return code handling in several driversNeil Horman2006-12-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up several code points in which the return code from misc_register is not handled properly. Several modules failed to deregister various hooks when misc_register fails, and this patch cleans them up. Also there are a few modules that legitimately don't care about the failure status of misc register. These drivers however unilaterally call misc_deregister on module unload. Since misc_register doesn't initialize the list_head in the init_routine if it fails, the deregister operation is at risk for oopsing when list_del is called. The initial solution was to manually init the list in the miscdev structure in each of those modules, but the consensus in this thread was to consolodate and do that universally inside misc_register. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Driver core: change misc class_devices to be real devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-12-011-9/+4Star
| | | | | | | | This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed up as they were assuming the device was a class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] make more file_operation structs staticArjan van de Ven2006-07-041-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper debug option they are then protected against corruption.. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-301-1/+0Star
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-4/+0Star
| | | | | | Also fixes all drivers that set this field. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-1/+0Star
| | | | | | Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-1/+0Star
| | | | | | Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-8/+1Star
| | | | | | Removes the devfs_mk_cdev() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create()Greg Kroah-Hartman2005-10-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create(). This patch fixes up all in-kernel users of the function. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] move m68k rtc drivers over to initcallsChristoph Hellwig2005-09-081-8/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | this gets rid of the last two explicit initializations in misc.c Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32: Remove CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOKBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-06-281-3/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK (PowerBook support). This is now split into CONFIG_PMAC_MEDIABAY for the actual hotswap bay that some powerbooks have, CONFIG_PM for power management related code, and just left out of any CONFIG_* option for some generally useful stuff that can be used on non-laptops as well. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] I8K: initialization code cleanup; formattingDmitry Torokhov2005-06-261-4/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | I8K: use module_{init|exit} instead of old style #ifdef MODULE code, some formatting changes. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Toshiba driver cleanupDmitry Torokhov2005-06-261-4/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | Toshiba legacy driver cleanup: - use module_init/module_exit for initialization instead of using #ifdef MODULE and calling tosh_init manually from drivers/char/misc.c - do not explicitly initialize static variables - some whitespace and formatting cleanups Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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