From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:10:14 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c516865cfbac0d862d4888df91793ad1e74ffd58;p=linux-beck.git

[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>
---

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index cfd290d3d6b1..bea1f4c02b9b 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -50,6 +50,32 @@ static struct sysfs_dirent * sysfs_new_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * parent_sd,
 	return sd;
 }
 
+/**
+ *
+ * Return -EEXIST if there is already a sysfs element with the same name for
+ * the same parent.
+ *
+ * called with parent inode's i_mutex held
+ */
+int sysfs_dirent_exist(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
+			  const unsigned char *new)
+{
+	struct sysfs_dirent * sd;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(sd, &parent_sd->s_children, s_sibling) {
+		if (sd->s_element) {
+			const unsigned char *existing = sysfs_get_name(sd);
+			if (strcmp(existing, new))
+				continue;
+			else
+				return -EEXIST;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
 int sysfs_make_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * parent_sd, struct dentry * dentry,
 			void * element, umode_t mode, int type)
 {
@@ -102,7 +128,11 @@ static int create_dir(struct kobject * k, struct dentry * p,
 	mutex_lock(&p->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	*d = lookup_one_len(n, p, strlen(n));
 	if (!IS_ERR(*d)) {
-		error = sysfs_make_dirent(p->d_fsdata, *d, k, mode, SYSFS_DIR);
+ 		if (sysfs_dirent_exist(p->d_fsdata, n))
+  			error = -EEXIST;
+  		else
+			error = sysfs_make_dirent(p->d_fsdata, *d, k, mode,
+								SYSFS_DIR);
 		if (!error) {
 			error = sysfs_create(*d, mode, init_dir);
 			if (!error) {
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index e21f4022feb8..5e83e7246788 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;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index e38d6338a20d..fe23f47f6e43 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -82,12 +82,13 @@ exit1:
 int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char * name)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = kobj->dentry;
-	int error = 0;
+	int error = -EEXIST;
 
 	BUG_ON(!kobj || !kobj->dentry || !name);
 
 	mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
-	error = sysfs_add_link(dentry, name, target);
+	if (!sysfs_dirent_exist(dentry->d_fsdata, name))
+		error = sysfs_add_link(dentry, name, target);
 	mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	return error;
 }
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 3f8953e0e5d0..cf11d5b789d9 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ extern kmem_cache_t *sysfs_dir_cachep;
 extern struct inode * sysfs_new_inode(mode_t mode, struct sysfs_dirent *);
 extern int sysfs_create(struct dentry *, int mode, int (*init)(struct inode *));
 
+extern int sysfs_dirent_exist(struct sysfs_dirent *, const unsigned char *);
 extern int sysfs_make_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *, struct dentry *, void *,
 				umode_t, int);