Hello, Bart. On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 05:28:11PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > It's not clear to me how the sysfs_break_active_protection() should obtain > the struct kernfs_node pointer to the attribute. Calling that function before > device_remove_file_self() causes a double call to > kernfs_break_active_protection(), > which is wrong. Calling kernfs_find_and_get(kobj->sd, attr->name) after the
So, if you braek active protection explicitly, there's no need to call remove_self(). It can just use regular remove. > attribute has been removed results in a NULL pointer because the attribute > that > that call tries to look up has already been removed. Should I proceed with the > approach proposed in the patches attached to a previous e-mail? I don't have an objection for that. Thanks. -- tejun
