Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write()

This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs.
It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode.
Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned.
IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free
associated data structures or be unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 2bab1b4ddf5a..9ff04491e3ea 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
+#include <asm/semaphore.h>
 #include "sysfs.h"
 
 DECLARE_RWSEM(sysfs_rename_sem);