vfio/mdev: Re-order sysfs attribute creation
authorAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 May 2018 17:40:33 +0000 (11:40 -0600)
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:24:30 +0000 (10:24 -0600)
There exists a gap at the end of mdev_device_create() where the device
is visible to userspace, but we're not yet ready to handle removal, as
triggered through the 'remove' attribute.  We handle this properly in
mdev_device_remove() with an -EAGAIN return, but we can marginally
reduce this gap by adding this attribute as a final step of our sysfs
setup.

Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c

index 802df21..249472f 100644 (file)
@@ -257,24 +257,24 @@ int  mdev_create_sysfs_files(struct device *dev, struct mdev_type *type)
 {
        int ret;
 
-       ret = sysfs_create_files(&dev->kobj, mdev_device_attrs);
-       if (ret)
-               return ret;
-
        ret = sysfs_create_link(type->devices_kobj, &dev->kobj, dev_name(dev));
        if (ret)
-               goto device_link_failed;
+               return ret;
 
        ret = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &type->kobj, "mdev_type");
        if (ret)
                goto type_link_failed;
 
+       ret = sysfs_create_files(&dev->kobj, mdev_device_attrs);
+       if (ret)
+               goto create_files_failed;
+
        return ret;
 
+create_files_failed:
+       sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "mdev_type");
 type_link_failed:
        sysfs_remove_link(type->devices_kobj, dev_name(dev));
-device_link_failed:
-       sysfs_remove_files(&dev->kobj, mdev_device_attrs);
        return ret;
 }