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authorManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>2006-03-09 19:40:14 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-03-20 13:42:59 -0800
commitc516865cfbac0d862d4888df91793ad1e74ffd58 (patch)
tree432024125976af3e6c87ae5b9e64b6f1cc291f70 /fs/sysfs/symlink.c
parent22f98c0cd7e003b896ee52ded945081307118745 (diff)
[PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files
The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs/symlink.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/symlink.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index e38d6338a20d..fe23f47f6e43 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -82,12 +82,13 @@ exit1:
int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char * name)
{
struct dentry * dentry = kobj->dentry;
- int error = 0;
+ int error = -EEXIST;
BUG_ON(!kobj || !kobj->dentry || !name);
mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
- error = sysfs_add_link(dentry, name, target);
+ if (!sysfs_dirent_exist(dentry->d_fsdata, name))
+ error = sysfs_add_link(dentry, name, target);
mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
return error;
}