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Commit 7cddf7e8 authored by Martin Wilck's avatar Martin Wilck Committed by Martin K. Petersen
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scsi: core: Make "access_state" sysfs attribute always visible

If a SCSI device handler module is loaded after some SCSI devices have
already been probed (e.g. via request_module() by dm-multipath), the
"access_state" and "preferred_path" sysfs attributes remain invisible for
these devices, although the handler is attached and live. The reason is
that the visibility is only checked when the sysfs attribute group is first
created. This results in an inconsistent user experience depending on the
load order of SCSI low-level drivers vs. device handler modules.

This patch changes user space API: attempting to read the "access_state" or
"preferred_path" attributes will now result in -EINVAL rather than -ENODEV
for devices that have no device handler, and tests for the existence of
these attributes will have a different result.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127141351.30706-1-mwilck@suse.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
parent d1d87c33
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