Commit ae2108ad authored Nov 23, 2013 by Tejun Heo Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Nov 27, 2013

sysfs: make __sysfs_add_one() fail if the parent isn't a directory



Currently the kobject based interface guarantees that a parent
sysfs_dirent is always a directory; however, the planned kernfs
interface will be directly based on sysfs_dirents and the caller may
specify non-directory node as the parent.  Add an explicit check in
__sysfs_add_one() so that such attempts fail with -EINVAL.

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

parent c84a3b27

fs/sysfs/dir.c

+3 −0

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		@@ -429,6 +429,9 @@ int __sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt, struct sysfs_dirent sd,
		return -EINVAL;
		}

		if (sysfs_type(parent_sd) != SYSFS_DIR)
		return -EINVAL;

		sd->s_hash = sysfs_name_hash(sd->s_name, sd->s_ns);
		sd->s_parent = sysfs_get(parent_sd);

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