[PATCH 04/26] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir stop checking for bogus cases.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri May 29 2009 - 16:22:00 EST


From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

kobj->sd can not be NULL in sysfs_remove_dir.

sysfs_remove_dir is only called from kobject_add (to clean up after failure)
and from kobject_del at the end of a kobject's life. In both cases kobject_add
has already called sysfs_create_dir successfully. The only writers of
kobj->sd are sysfs_create_dir on sucess and sysfs_remove_dir when it clears
the kobj just before deleting the directory.

Which means at the time sysfs_remove_dir is called kobj->sd will be
valid.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/sysfs/dir.c | 3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index b95cc07..a55e1d4 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -752,9 +752,6 @@ static void __sysfs_remove_dir(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd)
struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;
struct sysfs_dirent **pos;

- if (!dir_sd)
- return;
-
pr_debug("sysfs %s: removing dir\n", dir_sd->s_name);
sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, dir_sd);
pos = &dir_sd->s_dir.children;
--
1.6.3.1.54.g99dd.dirty

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