coresight: removing bind/unbind options from sysfs
The coresight drivers have absolutely no control over bind and unbind operations triggered from sysfs. The operations simply can't be cancelled or denied event when one or several tracing sessions are under way. Since the memory associated to individual device is invariably freed, the end result is a kernel crash when the path from source to sink is travelled again as demonstrated here[1]. One solution could be to keep track of all the path (i.e tracing session) that get created and iterate through the elements of those path looking for the coresight device that is being removed. This proposition doesn't scale well since there is no upper bound on the amount of concurrent trace session that can be created. With the above in mind, this patch prevent devices from being unbounded from their driver by using the driver->suppress_bind_attr option. That way trace sessions can be managed without fearing to loose devices. Since device can't be removed anymore the xyz_remove() functions found in each driver is also removed. [1]. http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg474952.htmlReported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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