On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:29:35PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:07:57PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > + dentry = lookup_one_len(filename, parent, strlen(filename));
>
> lookup_one_len() needs parent's i_mutex.
>
Good catch, thanks.
> > + if (IS_ERR(dentry))
> > + sysfs_hash_and_remove(parent, filename);
>
> Also wondering if you have considered the case of -EEXIST?
>
How is that going to happen? The line before we do sysfs_add_file(), and
if that errors out, then we never make it to lookup_one_len().
The IS_ERR() check is pretty superfluous anyways, perhaps it makes more
sense just to remove it and the sysfs_hash_and_remove() reference
entirely.
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