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authorLouis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>2008-06-12 17:26:47 +0200
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2008-07-14 13:57:16 -0700
commite75206517504461778c283b942440ef312e437d5 (patch)
treea0acb0d8cc4527fc00560d7b78a971100fba7f57 /fs/configfs
parent11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a (diff)
downloadlinux-e75206517504461778c283b942440ef312e437d5.tar.gz
configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failure
When allow_link() succeeds but create_link() fails, the subsystem is not
informed of the failure.

This patch fixes this by calling drop_link() on create_link() failures.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/configfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/configfs/symlink.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/configfs/symlink.c b/fs/configfs/symlink.c
index faeb4417a10d..0004d18c40ac 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/symlink.c
@@ -140,8 +140,12 @@ int configfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *symna
 		goto out_put;
 
 	ret = type->ct_item_ops->allow_link(parent_item, target_item);
-	if (!ret)
+	if (!ret) {
 		ret = create_link(parent_item, target_item, dentry);
+		if (ret && type->ct_item_ops->drop_link)
+			type->ct_item_ops->drop_link(parent_item,
+						     target_item);
+	}
 
 	config_item_put(target_item);
 	path_put(&nd.path);