Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 17:33:27 +0200 | From | "Kay Sievers" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released |
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On 5/10/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, devt_attr for the "dev" file is freed immediately on device > removal, but if the "dev" sysfs file is open when a device is removed, > sysfs will access its attribute structure for further access including > close resulting in jumping to garbled address. Fix it by postponing > freeing devt_attr to device release time. > > Note that devt_attr for class_device is already freed on release.
Hi Tejun, your rework removes the "owner" field from the attributes. I think we kept the "dev" and "uevent" attribute as part of "struct device" only to be able to assign it the actual owner of the module that has created the device. The attribute can probably just live as one instance statically in the driver core now?
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