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Commit 66942064 authored by Alex Chiang's avatar Alex Chiang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj



The only way for a sysfs attribute to remove itself (without
deadlock) is to use the sysfs_schedule_callback() interface.

Vegard Nossum discovered that a poorly written sysfs ->store
callback can repeatedly schedule remove callbacks on the same
device over and over, e.g.

	$ while true ; do echo 1 > /sys/devices/.../remove ; done

If the 'remove' attribute uses the sysfs_schedule_callback API
and also does not protect itself from concurrent accesses, its
callback handler will be called multiple times, and will
eventually attempt to perform operations on a freed kobject,
leading to many problems.

Instead of requiring all callers of sysfs_schedule_callback to
implement their own synchronization, provide the protection in
the infrastructure.

Now, sysfs_schedule_callback will only allow one scheduled
callback per kobject. On subsequent calls with the same kobject,
return -EAGAIN.

This is a short term fix. The long term fix is to allow sysfs
attributes to remove themselves directly, without any of this
callback hokey pokey.

[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: s390 ccwgroup bits]

Reported-by: default avatar <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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