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Maneesh Soni authored
The following patch fixes the race involved between unregistering a kobject and simultaneously opeing a corresponding attribute file in sysfs. Ideally sysfs should take a ref. to the kobject as long as it has dentries referring to the kobjects, but because of current limitations in module/kobject ref counting, sysfs's pinning of kobject leads to hang/delays in rmmod of certain modules. The patch checks for unhashed dentries in check_perm() while opening a sysfs file. If the dentry is still hashed then it goes ahead and takes the ref to kobject. This done under the per dentry lock. It does this in the inline routine sysfs_get_kobject(dentry).
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