Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-git] Fix error handling in create_files()

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 19:03:57 +0200,
Luca Tettamanti <[email protected]> wrote:

> While we are at it: is it safe to always call sysfs_remove_group even if
> the preceding sysfs_create_group failed?

No, it will oops in remove_dir(). (See also the recent discussion in
"drivers/base: error handling fixes" - drivers/base/topology.c has
problems in that area as well...)

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