Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: allow creating symlinks from untagged to tagged directories | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:18:17 -0700 |
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From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Supporting symlinks from untagged to tagged directories is reasonable, and needed to support CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. So don't fail a prior allowing that case to work.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c index 6603833..a7ac78f 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static int sysfs_do_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target, sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, parent_sd); /* Symlinks must be between directories with the same ns_type */ - if (ns_type == sysfs_ns_type(sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_parent)) { + if (!ns_type || + (ns_type == sysfs_ns_type(sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_parent))) { if (warn) error = sysfs_add_one(&acxt, sd); else -- 1.7.2
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