linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: Fix regression when adding a file to an existing group

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Message-Id: <20180729.131150.2292075046399424568.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 29 Jul 2018 13:11:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tyhicks@...onical.com
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: Fix regression when adding a file to
 an existing group

From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:33:27 +0000

> Commit 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging
> to arbitrary users") incorrectly changed the argument passed as the
> parent parameter when calling sysfs_add_file_mode_ns(). This caused some
> sysfs attribute files to not be added correctly to certain groups.
> 
> Fixes: 5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users")
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
> Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> Note, this was a regression exclusively in linux-next and never made it to
> Linus' tree. There's no need to queue it up for linux-stable.

Applied, thank you.