Re: [PATCHv1 00/14] power: supply: Fix custom sysfs attribute registration

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Oct 02 2018 - 19:00:42 EST


On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 12:03:35AM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Udev may not detect sysfs attributes, that have been added
> after the device has been created. Code doing that is racy [0].
> The power-supply class properly registers its attributes
> when the device is created, but some drivers add additional
> custom attributes in a racy way.
>
> The first patch from this series adds native support for custom
> sysfs attributes to the power-supply subsystem. This feature
> allows cleaner code and avoids a race condition preventing udev
> from noticing the custom properties.
>
> The following patches replace all instances of sysfs_create_*
> in drivers/power/supply to use the new feature and a couple
> of small cleanups.
>
> TL;DR: This patchsets replaces all sysfs_create_* in power-supply.
>
> [0] http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/06/26/how-to-create-a-sysfs-file-correctly/
>
> -- Sebastian
>
> Sebastian Reichel (14):
> power: supply: core: add support for custom sysfs attributes
> power: supply: bq2415x: fix race-condition in sysfs registration
> power: supply: ds2780: fix race-condition in sysfs registration
> power: supply: ds2781: fix race-condition in sysfs registration
> power: supply: lp8788: fix race-condition in sysfs registration
> power: supply: bq24190_charger: fix race-condition in sysfs
> registration
> power: supply: bq24257: fix race-condition in sysfs registration
> power: supply: charger-manager: simplify generation of sysfs attribute
> group name
> power: supply: charger-manager: fix race-condition in sysfs
> registration
> power: supply: pcf50633: fix race-condition in sysfs registration
> power: supply: ds2780: fix race-condition in bin attribute
> registration
> power: supply: ds2781: fix race-condition in bin attribute
> registration
> power: supply: ds2780: switch to devm_power_supply_register
> power: supply: ds2781: switch to devm_power_supply_register
>
> drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c | 119 ++++++++++-------------
> drivers/power/supply/bq24190_charger.c | 43 ++------
> drivers/power/supply/bq24257_charger.c | 15 +--
> drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c | 62 +++++-------
> drivers/power/supply/ds2780_battery.c | 87 +++++------------
> drivers/power/supply/ds2781_battery.c | 82 +++++-----------
> drivers/power/supply/lp8788-charger.c | 62 +++++-------
> drivers/power/supply/pcf50633-charger.c | 17 ++--
> drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c | 1 +
> include/linux/power/charger-manager.h | 3 +-
> include/linux/power_supply.h | 3 +
> 11 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 322 deletions(-)

Nice work, and it removes more code than it adds, always a win.

greg k-h