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| author | Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> | 2007-07-18 09:14:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-07-19 00:49:50 +0200 |
| commit | a1da4dfe35bc36c3bc9716d995c85b7983c38a76 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e24647ff074d564d55bfdbf811d413e6d5bfab9 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link() (diff) | |
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sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
There is a subtle bug in sysfs_create_link() failure path. When
symlink creation fails because there's already a node with the same
name, the target sysfs_dirent is put twice - once by failure path of
sysfs_create_link() and once more when the symlink is released.
Fix it by making only the symlink node responsible for putting
target_sd.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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