linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] sysfs: allow removal of nonexistent sysfs groups.

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Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:40:14 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] sysfs: allow removal of nonexistent sysfs groups.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:29:20 +0200
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> wrote:

> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> 
> This patch makes it safe to call sysfs_remove_group() with a name group
> that doesn't exist. Needed to make fix cpu hotplug stuff in topology code.
> 

Surely an attempt to remove a non-existent entry is a bug, and this
(racy-looking) patch just covers that up?

> ---
>  fs/sysfs/group.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/sysfs/group.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/sysfs/group.c	2006-10-09 09:15:25.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/sysfs/group.c	2006-10-09 09:25:23.000000000 +0200
> @@ -68,9 +68,12 @@
>  {
>  	struct dentry * dir;
>  
> -	if (grp->name)
> +	if (grp->name) {
> +		if (!sysfs_dirent_exist(kobj->dentry->d_fsdata, grp->name))
> +			return;
>  		dir = lookup_one_len(grp->name, kobj->dentry,
>  				strlen(grp->name));
> +	}
>  	else
>  		dir = dget(kobj->dentry);
>  
-
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