hwrng: Avoid manual device_create_file() calls
Use the new group field of struct miscdevice for managing the sysfs
entries instead of manually adding/removing via device_create_file()
and device_remove_file(). This simplifies the code a lot and fixes
the possible races.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 32a8a86..0a81945 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -299,11 +299,14 @@
.llseek = noop_llseek,
};
+static const struct attribute_group *rng_dev_groups[];
+
static struct miscdevice rng_miscdev = {
.minor = RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR,
.name = RNG_MODULE_NAME,
.nodename = "hwrng",
.fops = &rng_chrdev_ops,
+ .groups = rng_dev_groups,
};
@@ -376,37 +379,22 @@
hwrng_attr_available_show,
NULL);
+static struct attribute *rng_dev_attrs[] = {
+ &dev_attr_rng_current.attr,
+ &dev_attr_rng_available.attr,
+ NULL
+};
+
+ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(rng_dev);
static void __exit unregister_miscdev(void)
{
- device_remove_file(rng_miscdev.this_device, &dev_attr_rng_available);
- device_remove_file(rng_miscdev.this_device, &dev_attr_rng_current);
misc_deregister(&rng_miscdev);
}
static int __init register_miscdev(void)
{
- int err;
-
- err = misc_register(&rng_miscdev);
- if (err)
- goto out;
- err = device_create_file(rng_miscdev.this_device,
- &dev_attr_rng_current);
- if (err)
- goto err_misc_dereg;
- err = device_create_file(rng_miscdev.this_device,
- &dev_attr_rng_available);
- if (err)
- goto err_remove_current;
-out:
- return err;
-
-err_remove_current:
- device_remove_file(rng_miscdev.this_device, &dev_attr_rng_current);
-err_misc_dereg:
- misc_deregister(&rng_miscdev);
- goto out;
+ return misc_register(&rng_miscdev);
}
static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused)