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SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released
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?

Thanks,
Kay
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