Commit a1da4dfe authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path

There is a subtle bug in sysfs_create_link() failure path.  When
symlink creation fails because there's already a node with the same
name, the target sysfs_dirent is put twice - once by failure path of
sysfs_create_link() and once more when the symlink is released.

Fix it by making only the symlink node responsible for putting
target_sd.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 2ee97caf
......@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
sd = sysfs_new_dirent(name, S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO, SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK);
if (!sd)
goto out_put;
sd->s_elem.symlink.target_sd = target_sd;
target_sd = NULL; /* reference is now owned by the symlink */
sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, parent_sd);
......
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