Re: [PATCH] More Driver Core patches for 2.6.10-rc1

[Greg KH]

ChangeSet 1.2096, 2004/11/12 11:42:46-08:00, maneesh@xxxxxxxxxx

[PATCH] sysfs: fix duplicate driver registration error

o Do not release existing directory if the new directory happens to be a
  duplicate directory. Thanks to Kay Sievers for the testcase.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@xxxxxxxxx>


 fs/sysfs/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff -Nru a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c	2004-11-12 14:53:18 -08:00
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c	2004-11-12 14:53:18 -08:00
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 				d_rehash(*d);
 			}
 		}
-		if (error)
+		if (error && (error != -EEXIST))
 			d_drop(*d);
 		dput(*d);
 	} else

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