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Message-ID: <20070521043540.GA9214@in.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:05:40 +0530
From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@...uila.co.jp>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry()
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:52:53PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> The condition check doesn't make much sense as it basically always
> succeeds. This causes NULL dereferencing on certain cases. It seems
> that parentheses are put in the wrong place. Fix it.
>
> DON'T APPLY JUST YET
> ---
>
> Maneesh, is this correct?
>
Yes.
> fs/sysfs/inode.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: work/fs/sysfs/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- work.orig/fs/sysfs/inode.c
> +++ work/fs/sysfs/inode.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dire
> if (dentry) {
> spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
> spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
> - if (!(d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode)) {
> + if (!d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode) {
> inode = dentry->d_inode;
> spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> __iget(inode);
Ack'ed
Thanks
Maneesh
--
Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India
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