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sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes

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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.

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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>
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Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-11 13:20:23 -08:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 425cb02912
commit 04256b4a8f
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@@ -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);