[openib-general] [PATCH 1 of 13] ipath - fix race with exposing reset file
Bryan O'Sullivan
bos at pathscale.com
Mon Apr 24 14:22:57 PDT 2006
We were accidentally exposing the "reset" sysfs file more than once
per device.
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at pathscale.com>
diff -r 8cc21848a9bb -r 61819d2519e0 drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_diag.c
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_diag.c Wed Apr 19 15:24:35 2006 -0700
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_diag.c Wed Apr 19 15:24:36 2006 -0700
@@ -277,12 +277,13 @@ static int ipath_diag_open(struct inode
bail:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipath_devs_lock, flags);
- mutex_unlock(&ipath_mutex);
/* Only expose a way to reset the device if we
make it into diag mode. */
if (ret == 0)
ipath_expose_reset(&dd->pcidev->dev);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&ipath_mutex);
return ret;
}
diff -r 8cc21848a9bb -r 61819d2519e0 drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_sysfs.c
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_sysfs.c Wed Apr 19 15:24:35 2006 -0700
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_sysfs.c Wed Apr 19 15:24:36 2006 -0700
@@ -711,10 +711,22 @@ static struct attribute_group dev_attr_g
* enters diag mode. A device reset is quite likely to crash the
* machine entirely, so we don't want to normally make it
* available.
+ *
+ * Called with ipath_mutex held.
*/
int ipath_expose_reset(struct device *dev)
{
- return device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_reset);
+ static int exposed;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!exposed) {
+ ret = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_reset);
+ exposed = 1;
+ }
+ else
+ ret = 0;
+
+ return ret;
}
int ipath_driver_create_group(struct device_driver *drv)
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