The gpio-chip device attributes were never destroyed when the device was removed. Fix by using device_create_with_groups() to create the device attributes of the chip class device. Note that this also fixes the attribute-creation race with userspace. Fixes: d8f388d8dc8d ("gpio: sysfs interface") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v2.6.27+ Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c index 2ac1800b58bb..33cf4bd0ed2d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c @@ -400,16 +400,13 @@ static ssize_t chip_ngpio_show(struct device *dev, } static DEVICE_ATTR(ngpio, 0444, chip_ngpio_show, NULL); -static const struct attribute *gpiochip_attrs[] = { +static struct attribute *gpiochip_attrs[] = { &dev_attr_base.attr, &dev_attr_label.attr, &dev_attr_ngpio.attr, NULL, }; - -static const struct attribute_group gpiochip_attr_group = { - .attrs = (struct attribute **) gpiochip_attrs, -}; +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(gpiochip); /* * /sys/class/gpio/export ... write-only @@ -750,13 +747,13 @@ int gpiochip_export(struct gpio_chip *chip) /* use chip->base for the ID; it's already known to be unique */ mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock); - dev = device_create(&gpio_class, chip->dev, MKDEV(0, 0), chip, - "gpiochip%d", chip->base); - if (!IS_ERR(dev)) { - status = sysfs_create_group(&dev->kobj, - &gpiochip_attr_group); - } else + dev = device_create_with_groups(&gpio_class, chip->dev, MKDEV(0, 0), + chip, gpiochip_groups, + "gpiochip%d", chip->base); + if (IS_ERR(dev)) status = PTR_ERR(dev); + else + status = 0; chip->exported = (status == 0); mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock); -- 2.0.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html