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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>2005-08-26 18:34:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-08-26 19:37:13 -0700
commit36676bcbf9f6bcbea9d06e67ee8d04eacde54952 (patch)
treef31e9a79a643cfba649637164a559d94b4183ccc /fs
parent657390d25d4241705cb4fc5b3b4ba5b30575dc17 (diff)
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[PATCH] Fix oops in sysfs_hash_and_remove_file()
The problem arises if an entity in sysfs is created and removed without ever having been made completely visible. In SCSI this is triggered by removing a device while it's initialising. The problem appears to be that because it was never made visible in sysfs, the sysfs dentry has a null d_inode which oopses when a reference is made to it. The solution is simply to check d_inode and assume the object was never made visible (and thus doesn't need deleting) if it's NULL. (akpm: possibly a stopgap for 2.6.13 scsi problems. May not be the long-term fix) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/inode.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index d727dc9..970a33f 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ void sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct dentry * dir, const char * name)
struct sysfs_dirent * sd;
struct sysfs_dirent * parent_sd = dir->d_fsdata;
+ if (dir->d_inode == NULL)
+ /* no inode means this hasn't been made visible yet */
+ return;
+
down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
list_for_each_entry(sd, &parent_sd->s_children, s_sibling) {
if (!sd->s_element)
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