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Commit a1da4dfe authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path



There is a subtle bug in sysfs_create_link() failure path.  When
symlink creation fails because there's already a node with the same
name, the target sysfs_dirent is put twice - once by failure path of
sysfs_create_link() and once more when the symlink is released.

Fix it by making only the symlink node responsible for putting
target_sd.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 2ee97caf
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