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authorRajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>2018-06-16 10:49:46 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-07-07 17:54:46 +0200
commitc855cf2759d27142f771173d9fd8e7fdf9cf5138 (patch)
treebdca38399864bfa1900851f1ef1f6248b9debf5a /fs/sysfs
parent319b11ef5719a2f0ae65ce5f665f263a5e7a06c3 (diff)
sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates
There are a couple of problems with named group updates in the code today: * sysfs_update_group() will always fail for a named group, because internal_create_group() will try to create a new sysfs directory unconditionally, which will ofcourse fail with -EEXIST. * We can leak the kernfs_node for grp->name if some one tries to: - rename a group (change grp->name), or - update a named group, to an unnamed group It appears that the whole purpose of sysfs_update_group() was to allow changing the permissions or visibility of attributes and not the names. So make it clear in the comments, and allow it to update an existing named group. Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/group.c29
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index 4802ec0e1e3a..38240410f831 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -119,12 +119,22 @@ static int internal_create_group(struct kobject *kobj, int update,
return -EINVAL;
}
if (grp->name) {
- kn = kernfs_create_dir(kobj->sd, grp->name,
- S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO, kobj);
- if (IS_ERR(kn)) {
- if (PTR_ERR(kn) == -EEXIST)
- sysfs_warn_dup(kobj->sd, grp->name);
- return PTR_ERR(kn);
+ if (update) {
+ kn = kernfs_find_and_get(kobj->sd, grp->name);
+ if (!kn) {
+ pr_warn("Can't update unknown attr grp name: %s/%s\n",
+ kobj->name, grp->name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ } else {
+ kn = kernfs_create_dir(kobj->sd, grp->name,
+ S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
+ kobj);
+ if (IS_ERR(kn)) {
+ if (PTR_ERR(kn) == -EEXIST)
+ sysfs_warn_dup(kobj->sd, grp->name);
+ return PTR_ERR(kn);
+ }
}
} else
kn = kobj->sd;
@@ -135,6 +145,10 @@ static int internal_create_group(struct kobject *kobj, int update,
kernfs_remove(kn);
}
kernfs_put(kn);
+
+ if (grp->name && update)
+ kernfs_put(kn);
+
return error;
}
@@ -199,7 +213,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_groups);
* of the attribute files being created already exist. Furthermore,
* if the visibility of the files has changed through the is_visible()
* callback, it will update the permissions and add or remove the
- * relevant files.
+ * relevant files. Changing a group's name (subdirectory name under
+ * kobj's directory in sysfs) is not allowed.
*
* The primary use for this function is to call it after making a change
* that affects group visibility.