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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:31:16 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: andrew.patterson@...com Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error returns not handled correctly by sysfs.c:subsys_attr_store() On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:59 -0700 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@...com> wrote: > The buf in fs/sysfs.c:subsys_attr_store() does not seem to be updated > correctly when returning a negative value (indicating that an error > condition has occurred) is returned. If a negative value is returned, > the next subsequent call to subsys_attr_store will have the contents of > buf appended to the previous call. subsys_attr_store() gets deleted by http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/kset-kill-subsys-attr.patch So maybe we will soon accidentally fix whatever-this-is? Or maybe we will faithfully maintain it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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