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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2007-06-14 03:45:17 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-07-11 16:09:06 -0700
commit7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 (patch)
treecd06687ab3e5c7a5a4ef91903dff207a18c4db76 /net
parentdbde0fcf9f8f6d477af3c32d9979e789ee680cde (diff)
downloadlinux-7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15.tar.bz2
sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c3
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c3
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c
index 33c6c4a7c689..31ace23a0914 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c
@@ -383,8 +383,7 @@ static ssize_t brforward_read(struct kobject *kobj, char *buf,
static struct bin_attribute bridge_forward = {
.attr = { .name = SYSFS_BRIDGE_FDB,
- .mode = S_IRUGO,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE, },
+ .mode = S_IRUGO, },
.read = brforward_read,
};
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
index 2da22927d8dd..79db51fcb476 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ struct brport_attribute {
#define BRPORT_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store) \
struct brport_attribute brport_attr_##_name = { \
.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), \
- .mode = _mode, \
- .owner = THIS_MODULE, }, \
+ .mode = _mode }, \
.show = _show, \
.store = _store, \
};