On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:02:16PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> For WMI operations that are only Set or Query read or write sysfs
> attributes created by WMI vendor drivers make sense.
>
> For other WMI operations that are run on Method, there needs to be a
> way to guarantee to userspace that the results from the method call
> belong to the data request to the method call. Sysfs attributes don't
> work well in this scenario because two userspace processes may be
> competing at reading/writing an attribute and step on each other's
> data.
>
> When a WMI vendor driver declares a set of functions in a
> file_operations object the WMI bus driver will create a character
> device that maps to those file operations.
>
> That character device will correspond to this path:
> /dev/wmi/$driver
>
> This policy is selected as one driver may map and use multiple
> GUIDs and it would be better to only expose a single character
> device.
>
> The WMI vendor drivers will be responsible for managing access to
> this character device and proper locking on it.
>
> When a WMI vendor driver is unloaded the WMI bus driver will clean
> up the character device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> include/linux/wmi.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> index 4d73a87c2ddf..17399df87948 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>
> #include <linux/acpi.h>
> +#include <linux/cdev.h>
> #include <linux/device.h>
> +#include <linux/idr.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/list.h>
> @@ -50,6 +52,9 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Carlos Corbacho");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> +#define WMI_MAX_DEVS MINORMASK
> +static DEFINE_IDR(wmi_idr);
You never free the idr's memory when you unload the module :(
