From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix hardlink count on device_move
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:17:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5D9EB7.30603@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090714160447.GA1933@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:56:15PM +0200, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
>> From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> Update directory hardlink count when moving kobjects to a new parent.
>> Fixes the following problem which occurs when several devices are
>> moved to the same parent and then unregistered:
>>
>>> ls -laF /sys/devices/css0/defunct/
>>> total 0
>>> drwxr-xr-x 4294967295 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:02 ./
>>> drwxr-xr-x 114 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:02 ../
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:01 power/
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2009-07-14 17:01 uevent
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> Is this something new in 2.6.31-rc, or does it also show up in .30
> and/or .27?
This is an old problem that existed since the introduction of
sysfs_move_dir() in 2.6.20.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 15:56 [PATCH] sysfs: fix hardlink count on device_move Peter Oberparleiter
2009-07-14 16:04 ` Greg KH
2009-07-15 9:17 ` Peter Oberparleiter [this message]
2009-07-15 13:20 ` Greg KH
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