From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 05:34:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: sysfs: remove error messages for -EEXIST case X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc4~91^2~20 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0599ad53fee2d084f9ba26247d7452f06a40d298;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git sysfs: remove error messages for -EEXIST case It is possible that the entry in sysfs already exists, one case of this is when a network device is renamed to bonding_masters. Anyway, in this case the proper error path is for device_rename to return an error code, not to generate bogus backtrace and errors. Also, to avoid possible races, the create link should be done before the remove link. This makes a device rename atomic operation like other renames. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index be288b5e418..3eeac5a7858 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1218,13 +1218,11 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name) } #else if (dev->class) { - sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, old_device_name); error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id); - if (error) { - dev_err(dev, "%s: sysfs_create_symlink failed (%d)\n", - __func__, error); - } + if (error) + goto out; + sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, old_device_name); } #endif diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index a1c3a1fab7f..8c0e4b92574 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -419,12 +419,8 @@ void sysfs_addrm_start(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, */ int sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd) { - if (sysfs_find_dirent(acxt->parent_sd, sd->s_name)) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' " - "can not be created\n", sd->s_name); - WARN_ON(1); + if (sysfs_find_dirent(acxt->parent_sd, sd->s_name)) return -EEXIST; - } sd->s_parent = sysfs_get(acxt->parent_sd);