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For devices with a class, we create a "glue" directory between the parent device and the new device with the class name. This directory is never "explicitely" removed when empty however, this is left to the implicit sysfs removal done by kobject_release() when the object loses its last reference via kobject_put(). This is problematic because as long as it's not been removed from sysfs, it is still present in the class kset and in sysfs directory structure. The presence in the class kset exposes a use after free bug fixed by the previous patch, but the presence in sysfs means that until the kobject is released, which can take a while (especially with kobject debugging), any attempt at re-creating such as binding a new device for that class/parent pair, will result in a sysfs duplicate file name error. This fixes it by instead doing an explicit kobject_del() when the glue dir is empty, by keeping track of the number of child devices of the gluedir. This is made easy by the fact that all glue dir operations are done with a global mutex, and there's already a function (cleanup_glue_dir) called in all the right places taking that mutex that can be enhanced for this. It appears that this was in fact the intent of the function, but the implementation was wrong. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.