From: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kafs doesn't check if the cell already exists - so if you do an echo "add newcell.org 1.2.3.4" >/proc/fs/afs/cells it will try to create this cell again. kobject will also complain about a double registration. To prevent such problems, return -EEXIST in that case. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/afs/cell.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c index 970d38f..788865d 100644 --- a/fs/afs/cell.c +++ b/fs/afs/cell.c @@ -127,14 +127,20 @@ struct afs_cell *afs_cell_create(const char *name, char *vllist) _enter("%s,%s", name, vllist); + down_write(&afs_cells_sem); + read_lock(&afs_cells_lock); + list_for_each_entry(cell, &afs_cells, link) { + if (strcasecmp(cell->name, name) == 0) + goto duplicate_name; + } + read_unlock(&afs_cells_lock); + cell = afs_cell_alloc(name, vllist); if (IS_ERR(cell)) { _leave(" = %ld", PTR_ERR(cell)); return cell; } - down_write(&afs_cells_sem); - /* add a proc directory for this cell */ ret = afs_proc_cell_setup(cell); if (ret < 0) @@ -167,6 +173,11 @@ error: kfree(cell); _leave(" = %d", ret); return ERR_PTR(ret); + +duplicate_name: + read_unlock(&afs_cells_lock); + up_write(&afs_cells_sem); + return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html