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Date:	Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:41:30 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	NETDEV <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] bridge: sysfs cleanup

Stephen Hemminger said the following on 2008-6-21 1:44:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:55:15 +0800
> Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> When I am doing this series of patch, I notice that bridge's sysfs are
>> not cleanuped after failure and bridge delete.
>>
>> Here is the patch for it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  net/bridge/br_if.c       |    2 ++
>>  net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c |    9 ++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
>> index 49dd433..4b730fa 100644
>> --- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
>> +++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
>> @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void del_br(struct net_bridge *br)
>>  	struct net_bridge_port *p, *n;
>>  
>>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &br->port_list, list) {
>> +		br_sysfs_removeif(p);
>>  		del_nbp(p);
>>  	}
>>  
>> @@ -435,6 +436,7 @@ int br_del_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
>>  	if (!p || p->br != br)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>> +	br_sysfs_removeif(p);
>>  	del_nbp(p);
>>  
>>  	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
>> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
>> index 7f80462..9e9d17c 100644
>> --- a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
>> +++ b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
>> @@ -226,10 +226,17 @@ int br_sysfs_addif(struct net_bridge_port *p)
>>  	for (a = brport_attrs; *a; ++a) {
>>  		err = sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &((*a)->attr));
>>  		if (err)
>> -			goto out2;
>> +			goto out1;
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	err = sysfs_create_link(br->ifobj, &p->kobj, p->dev->name);
>> +	if (err)
>> +		goto out1;
>> +	return 0;
>> +out1:
>> +	for (a = brport_attrs; *a; ++a)
>> +		sysfs_remove_file(&p->kobj, &((*a)->attr));
>> +	sysfs_remove_link(&br->dev->dev.kobj, SYSFS_BRIDGE_PORT_LINK);
>>  out2:
>>  	return err;
>>  }
> 
> This is unneeded since the bridge port kobject is deleted when removed
> or in case of error and kobject_del calls sysfs_remove_dir.
> 

Stephen, thank you for your explanation.
Since kobject_del will unwind what sysfs_create_* did,
I also think this patch is unneeded.

David, would you please ignore this patch.

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