linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:53:42 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
CC:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	miles.lane@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure
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Satyam Sharma wrote:
>> sysfs_find_dirent() -- to check for -EEXIST -- should be called
>> *before* we create the new dentry for the to-be-created symlink
>> in the first place. [ It's weird to grab a reference on the target
>> for ourselves (and in fact even allocate the new dirent for the
>> to-be-created symlink) and /then/ check for erroneous usage,
>> and then go about undoing all that we should never have done
>> at all. ] So this test could, and should, be made earlier, IMHO.
> 
> A trivial nit:
> 
> The cleanup ignores the return of sysfs_addrm_finish() -- functions
> such as those could and should be void-returning. It doesn't even
> need to return an int for success / failure ... I went over it's code,
> and it's obvious that the function just never fails!
> 
> Returning the count of objects actually added / removed is quite
> redundant too, because we return "actx->cnt" unconditionally
> from inside it, and the caller can know that anyway, without
> even calling it. Also, note that nowhere in the present code is
> the return of that function ever being used in that sense (i.e. as
> a "count") anyway ...
> 
> So: best to just make it void-returning. That's what it is.

Oh well, the function was made that way because that made the conversion
easier when add/rm paths were consolidated using sysfs_addrm_cxt and
friends.  So, if you see the detail as a problem, please submit a patch.
 I dunno whether I would agree with the patch or not without seeing one.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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