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SubjectSysfs attributes racing with unregistration
Tejun:

Can you explain the current situation regarding access to sysfs
attributes and possible races with kobject removal? I have two
questions in particular:

What happens if one thread calls an attribute's show or
store method concurrently with another thread unregistering
the underlying kobject?

What happens if a thread continues to hold an open fd
reference to a sysfs attribute file after the kobject is
unregistered, and then tries to read or write that fd?

If there are any guarantees about what happens in these situations, I
can't find them in the kernel source.

And of course, if you can think of any other matters related to this
topic, please mention them.

Alan Stern



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