summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/sysfs/file.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>2006-03-09 19:40:14 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-03-20 13:42:59 -0800
commitc516865cfbac0d862d4888df91793ad1e74ffd58 (patch)
tree432024125976af3e6c87ae5b9e64b6f1cc291f70 /fs/sysfs/file.c
parent22f98c0cd7e003b896ee52ded945081307118745 (diff)
[PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files
The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs/file.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/file.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index e21f4022feb..5e83e724678 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -361,10 +361,12 @@ int sysfs_add_file(struct dentry * dir, const struct attribute * attr, int type)
{
struct sysfs_dirent * parent_sd = dir->d_fsdata;
umode_t mode = (attr->mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG;
- int error = 0;
+ int error = -EEXIST;
mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
- error = sysfs_make_dirent(parent_sd, NULL, (void *) attr, mode, type);
+ if (!sysfs_dirent_exist(parent_sd, attr->name))
+ error = sysfs_make_dirent(parent_sd, NULL, (void *)attr,
+ mode, type);
mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
return error;