Commit 47a52e91 authored Dec 11, 2013 by Tejun Heo Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Dec 17, 2013

kernfs: update kernfs_rename_ns() to consider KERNFS_STATIC_NAME



kernfs_rename_ns() currently assumes that the target sysfs_dirent has
a copied name.  This has been okay because sysfs supports rename only
for directories which always have copied names; however, there's
nothing in kernfs interface which calls for such restriction and
currently invoking kernfs_rename_ns() on a regular file leads to oops
because it ends up trying to kfree() a static name.

This patch updates kernfs_rename_ns() so that it skips kfree() of the
old name if it's static.  This allows it to be used for all node
types.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 2063d608

fs/kernfs/dir.c

+5 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -886,7 +886,11 @@ int kernfs_rename_ns(struct kernfs_node kn, struct kernfs_node new_parent,
		if (!new_name)
		goto out;

		if (kn->flags & KERNFS_STATIC_NAME)
		kn->flags &= ~KERNFS_STATIC_NAME;
		else
		kfree(kn->name);

		kn->name = new_name;
		}

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