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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2010-07-20 22:12:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-07-26 12:02:41 -0700 |
| commit | d33002129eee4717a92e320b0b764a784bbcad3a (patch) | |
| tree | 0f519f2385d08e3b1702c89e1e01ff079a2e5846 | |
| parent | 521d0453547d6195d200176328aaec6c98a7a290 (diff) | |
sysfs: allow creating symlinks from untagged to tagged directories
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 66038332134..a7ac78f8e67 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 |