Many drivers create additional driver-specific device attributes when
binding to the device and providing managed version of sysfs_create_group()
will simplify unbinding and error handling in probe path for such drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
---
 fs/sysfs/group.c      | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/sysfs.h |  10 ++++
 2 files changed, 134 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index 39a0199..9511437 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/dcache.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include "sysfs.h"
@@ -352,3 +353,126 @@ void sysfs_remove_link_from_group(struct kobject *kobj, 
const char *group_name,
        }
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_link_from_group);
+
+struct sysfs_group_devres {
+       const struct attribute_group *group;
+};
+
+static int devm_sysfs_group_match(struct device *dev, void *res, void *data)
+{
+       return ((struct sysfs_group_devres *)res)->group == data;
+}
+
+static void devm_sysfs_group_remove_group(struct device *dev, void *res)
+{
+       struct sysfs_group_devres *devres = res;
+       const struct attribute_group *group = devres->group;
+
+       dev_dbg(dev, "%s: removing group %p\n", __func__, group);
+       sysfs_remove_group(&dev->kobj, group);
+}
+
+/**
+ * devm_sysfs_create_group - given a device, create a managed attribute group
+ * @dev:       The device to create the group for
+ * @grp:       The attribute group to create
+ *
+ * This function creates a group for the first time.  It will explicitly
+ * warn and error if any of the attribute files being created already exist.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success or error code on failure.
+ */
+int devm_sysfs_create_group(struct device *dev,
+                           const struct attribute_group *grp)
+{
+       struct sysfs_group_devres *devres;
+       int error;
+
+       devres = devres_alloc(devm_sysfs_group_remove_group,
+                             sizeof(*devres), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!devres)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
+       error = sysfs_create_group(&dev->kobj, grp);
+       if (error) {
+               devres_free(devres);
+               return error;
+       }
+
+       devres_add(dev, devres);
+       return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_sysfs_create_group);
+
+/**
+ * devm_sysfs_create_groups - create a bunch of managed attribute groups
+ * @dev:       The device to create the group for
+ * @groups:    The attribute groups to create, NULL terminated
+ *
+ * This function creates a bunch of managed attribute groups.  If an error
+ * occurs when creating a group, all previously created groups will be
+ * removed, unwinding everything back to the original state when this
+ * function was called.  It will explicitly warn and error if any of the
+ * attribute files being created already exist.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success or error code from sysfs_create_group on failure.
+ */
+int devm_sysfs_create_groups(struct device *dev,
+                            const struct attribute_group **groups)
+{
+       int error;
+       int i;
+
+       if (!groups)
+               return 0;
+
+       for (i = 0; groups[i]; i++) {
+               error = devm_sysfs_create_group(dev, groups[i]);
+               if (error) {
+                       while (--i >= 0)
+                               devm_sysfs_remove_group(dev, groups[i]);
+                       return error;
+               }
+       }
+
+       return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_sysfs_create_groups);
+
+/**
+ * devm_sysfs_remove_group: remove a managed group from a device
+ * @dev:       device to remove the group from
+ * @grp:       group to remove
+ *
+ * This function removes a group of attributes from a device.  The attributes
+ * previously have to have been created for this group, otherwise it will fail.
+ */
+void devm_sysfs_remove_group(struct device *dev,
+                            const struct attribute_group *grp)
+{
+       WARN_ON(devres_release(dev, devm_sysfs_group_remove_group,
+                              devm_sysfs_group_match,
+                              /* cast away const */ (void *)grp));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_sysfs_remove_group);
+
+/**
+ * devm_sysfs_remove_groups - remove a list of managed groups
+ *
+ * @dev:       The device for the groups to be removed from
+ * @groups:    NULL terminated list of groups to be removed
+ *
+ * If groups is not NULL, remove the specified groups from the device.
+ */
+void devm_sysfs_remove_groups(struct device *dev,
+                             const struct attribute_group **groups)
+{
+       int i;
+
+       if (!groups)
+               return;
+
+       for (i = 0; groups[i]; i++)
+               devm_sysfs_remove_group(dev, groups[i]);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_sysfs_remove_groups);
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 9f65758..b59a913 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -269,6 +269,16 @@ int sysfs_add_link_to_group(struct kobject *kobj, const 
char *group_name,
 void sysfs_remove_link_from_group(struct kobject *kobj, const char *group_name,
                                  const char *link_name);
 
+struct device;
+int __must_check devm_sysfs_create_group(struct device *dev,
+                               const struct attribute_group *grp);
+int __must_check devm_sysfs_create_groups(struct device *dev,
+                               const struct attribute_group **groups);
+void devm_sysfs_remove_group(struct device *dev,
+                            const struct attribute_group *grp);
+void devm_sysfs_remove_groups(struct device *dev,
+                             const struct attribute_group **groups);
+
 void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, const char *dir, const char *attr);
 
 int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
-- 
1.9.1


-- 
Dmitry
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