On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:31:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:59 -0700 Andrew Patterson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The buf in fs/sysfs.c:subsys_attr_store() does not seem to be updated
> > correctly when returning a negative value (indicating that an error
> > condition has occurred) is returned. If a negative value is returned,
> > the next subsequent call to subsys_attr_store will have the contents of
> > buf appended to the previous call.
>
> subsys_attr_store() gets deleted by
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/kset-kill-subsys-attr.patch
>
> So maybe we will soon accidentally fix whatever-this-is? Or maybe we will
> faithfully maintain it.
Yes, subsys attributes go away, but this is showing a bug in the sysfs
core with attributes, not in the "middle" layers of attributes.
I bounced the original bug report to Tejun, who has been changing the
logic around this area to see if he sees anything that might be
different now.
Tejun?
thanks,
greg k-h
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