Re: Error returns not handled correctly bysysfs.c:subsys_attr_store()

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:59 -0700 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@xxxxxx> 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.
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