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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>2020-05-20 11:53:50 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>2020-05-20 11:53:50 +0200
commit53454c3459bc25f3678f0ec9632609082685c766 (patch)
tree608f3245adca083d9790c28cefc58ad4ed9e394c /fs/char_dev.c
parent7c5f3f37352a74c2605999f315ef9efe39a1288c (diff)
parentd72237c1e00f85e5df1c040280d50561c8a28329 (diff)
Merge 4.4.224 into android-4.4-p
Changes in 4.4.224 USB: serial: qcserial: Add DW5816e support Revert "net: phy: Avoid polling PHY with PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPTS" dp83640: reverse arguments to list_add_tail net/mlx4_core: Fix use of ENOSPC around mlx4_counter_alloc() sch_sfq: validate silly quantum values sch_choke: avoid potential panic in choke_reset() Revert "ACPI / video: Add force_native quirk for HP Pavilion dv6" enic: do not overwrite error code ipv6: fix cleanup ordering for ip6_mr failure binfmt_elf: move brk out of mmap when doing direct loader exec x86/apm: Don't access __preempt_count with zeroed fs Revert "IB/ipoib: Update broadcast object if PKey value was changed in index 0" USB: uas: add quirk for LaCie 2Big Quadra USB: serial: garmin_gps: add sanity checking for data length batman-adv: fix batadv_nc_random_weight_tq scripts/decodecode: fix trapping instruction formatting phy: micrel: Ensure interrupts are reenabled on resume binfmt_elf: Do not move brk for INTERP-less ET_EXEC ext4: add cond_resched() to ext4_protect_reserved_inode net: ipv6: add net argument to ip6_dst_lookup_flow net: ipv6_stub: use ip6_dst_lookup_flow instead of ip6_dst_lookup blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops blktrace: fix unlocked access to init/start-stop/teardown blktrace: fix trace mutex deadlock blktrace: Protect q->blk_trace with RCU blktrace: fix dereference after null check ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register() ptp: use is_visible method to hide unused attributes ptp: create "pins" together with the rest of attributes chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device ptp: Fix pass zero to ERR_PTR() in ptp_clock_register ptp: fix the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev ptp: free ptp device pin descriptors properly net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send net/sonic: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path in 'jazz_sonic_probe()' net: moxa: Fix a potential double 'free_irq()' drop_monitor: work around gcc-10 stringop-overflow warning scsi: sg: add sg_remove_request in sg_write spi: spi-dw: Add lock protect dw_spi rx/tx to prevent concurrent calls cifs: Check for timeout on Negotiate stage cifs: Fix a race condition with cifs_echo_request dmaengine: pch_dma.c: Avoid data race between probe and irq handler dmaengine: mmp_tdma: Reset channel error on release drm/qxl: lost qxl_bo_kunmap_atomic_page in qxl_image_init_helper() ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index net: openvswitch: fix csum updates for MPLS actions gre: do not keep the GRE header around in collect medata mode mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix overflow in test_pages_in_a_zone() scsi: qla2xxx: Avoid double completion of abort command i40e: avoid NVM acquire deadlock during NVM update net/mlx5: Fix driver load error flow when firmware is stuck netfilter: conntrack: avoid gcc-10 zero-length-bounds warning IB/mlx4: Test return value of calls to ib_get_cached_pkey pnp: Use list_for_each_entry() instead of open coding gcc-10 warnings: fix low-hanging fruit kbuild: compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized gcc-10: disable 'zero-length-bounds' warning for now gcc-10: disable 'array-bounds' warning for now gcc-10: disable 'stringop-overflow' warning for now gcc-10: disable 'restrict' warning for now block: defer timeouts to a workqueue blk-mq: Allow timeouts to run while queue is freezing blk-mq: sync the update nr_hw_queues with blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter blk-mq: Allow blocking queue tag iter callbacks x86/paravirt: Remove the unused irq_enable_sysexit pv op gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto net: fix a potential recursive NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE net: ipv4: really enforce backoff for redirects netlabel: cope with NULL catmap ALSA: hda/realtek - Limit int mic boost for Thinkpad T530 ALSA: rawmidi: Fix racy buffer resize under concurrent accesses ALSA: rawmidi: Initialize allocated buffers USB: gadget: fix illegal array access in binding with UDC ARM: dts: imx27-phytec-phycard-s-rdk: Fix the I2C1 pinctrl entries x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try exec: Move would_dump into flush_old_exec usb: gadget: net2272: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path in 'net2272_plat_probe()' usb: gadget: audio: Fix a missing error return value in audio_bind() usb: gadget: legacy: fix error return code in gncm_bind() usb: gadget: legacy: fix error return code in cdc_bind() Revert "ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix pop noise on ALC225" ARM: dts: r8a7740: Add missing extal2 to CPG node KVM: x86: Fix off-by-one error in kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_setup_mce Makefile: disallow data races on gcc-10 as well scsi: iscsi: Fix a potential deadlock in the timeout handler Linux 4.4.224 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com> Change-Id: I384313d39dead8b0babb144803269033f4aacc53
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/char_dev.c86
1 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index f1f3bb812799..9154a2d7b195 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -472,6 +472,85 @@ int cdev_add(struct cdev *p, dev_t dev, unsigned count)
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * cdev_set_parent() - set the parent kobject for a char device
+ * @p: the cdev structure
+ * @kobj: the kobject to take a reference to
+ *
+ * cdev_set_parent() sets a parent kobject which will be referenced
+ * appropriately so the parent is not freed before the cdev. This
+ * should be called before cdev_add.
+ */
+void cdev_set_parent(struct cdev *p, struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+ WARN_ON(!kobj->state_initialized);
+ p->kobj.parent = kobj;
+}
+
+/**
+ * cdev_device_add() - add a char device and it's corresponding
+ * struct device, linkink
+ * @dev: the device structure
+ * @cdev: the cdev structure
+ *
+ * cdev_device_add() adds the char device represented by @cdev to the system,
+ * just as cdev_add does. It then adds @dev to the system using device_add
+ * The dev_t for the char device will be taken from the struct device which
+ * needs to be initialized first. This helper function correctly takes a
+ * reference to the parent device so the parent will not get released until
+ * all references to the cdev are released.
+ *
+ * This helper uses dev->devt for the device number. If it is not set
+ * it will not add the cdev and it will be equivalent to device_add.
+ *
+ * This function should be used whenever the struct cdev and the
+ * struct device are members of the same structure whose lifetime is
+ * managed by the struct device.
+ *
+ * NOTE: Callers must assume that userspace was able to open the cdev and
+ * can call cdev fops callbacks at any time, even if this function fails.
+ */
+int cdev_device_add(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev)
+{
+ int rc = 0;
+
+ if (dev->devt) {
+ cdev_set_parent(cdev, &dev->kobj);
+
+ rc = cdev_add(cdev, dev->devt, 1);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+ }
+
+ rc = device_add(dev);
+ if (rc)
+ cdev_del(cdev);
+
+ return rc;
+}
+
+/**
+ * cdev_device_del() - inverse of cdev_device_add
+ * @dev: the device structure
+ * @cdev: the cdev structure
+ *
+ * cdev_device_del() is a helper function to call cdev_del and device_del.
+ * It should be used whenever cdev_device_add is used.
+ *
+ * If dev->devt is not set it will not remove the cdev and will be equivalent
+ * to device_del.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This guarantees that associated sysfs callbacks are not running
+ * or runnable, however any cdevs already open will remain and their fops
+ * will still be callable even after this function returns.
+ */
+void cdev_device_del(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev)
+{
+ device_del(dev);
+ if (dev->devt)
+ cdev_del(cdev);
+}
+
static void cdev_unmap(dev_t dev, unsigned count)
{
kobj_unmap(cdev_map, dev, count);
@@ -483,6 +562,10 @@ static void cdev_unmap(dev_t dev, unsigned count)
*
* cdev_del() removes @p from the system, possibly freeing the structure
* itself.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This guarantees that cdev device will no longer be able to be
+ * opened, however any cdevs already open will remain and their fops will
+ * still be callable even after cdev_del returns.
*/
void cdev_del(struct cdev *p)
{
@@ -571,5 +654,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_init);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_alloc);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_del);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_add);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_set_parent);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_device_add);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_device_del);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__register_chrdev);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unregister_chrdev);