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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>2009-02-11 13:20:23 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-24 16:38:25 -0700
commit04256b4a8fc73f54cd14f20867882c299728a446 (patch)
tree16267f6c77e0fa9f7229a30f66343289b6d1108a /fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
parent425cb02912d1095febfeaf8d379af7b2ac9e4a89 (diff)
sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs. To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs/sysfs.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 93c6d6b27c4..9055d04e4ab 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static inline void __sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
* inode.c
*/
struct inode *sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
+void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode);
int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr);
int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name);
int sysfs_inode_init(void);