From patchwork Mon Apr 8 09:50:21 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 234684 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A142C00D6 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:52:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UP8kR-0006St-In; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:52:23 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UP8kM-0006Gp-9K for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:52:18 +0000 Received: from bl15-144-85.dsl.telepac.pt ([188.80.144.85] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UP8kM-00061N-3s; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:52:18 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 066/102] bonding: remove already created master sysfs link on failure Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:50:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1365414657-29191-67-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1365414657-29191-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: Veaceslav Falico , "David S. Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.10 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Veaceslav Falico commit 9fe16b78ee17579cb4f333534cf7043e94c67024 upstream. If slave sysfs symlink failes to be created - we end up without removing the master sysfs symlink. Remove it in case of failure. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c index 9ea29aa..97c33c2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c @@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ int bond_create_slave_symlinks(struct net_device *master, sprintf(linkname, "slave_%s", slave->name); ret = sysfs_create_link(&(master->dev.kobj), &(slave->dev.kobj), linkname); + + /* free the master link created earlier in case of error */ + if (ret) + sysfs_remove_link(&(slave->dev.kobj), "master"); + return ret; }