From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Use the existing sysfs_rename to make sysfs_rename_link an atomic operation that does less work. While I am at add additional sanity checking to ensure it is a symlink I am renaming. Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c index fc5fc86..39d050b 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c @@ -106,8 +106,30 @@ void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name) int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ, const char *old, const char *new) { - sysfs_remove_link(kobj, old); - return sysfs_create_link(kobj, targ, new); + struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, *sd = NULL; + int result; + + if (!kobj) + parent_sd = &sysfs_root; + else + parent_sd = kobj->sd; + + result = -ENOENT; + sd = sysfs_get_dirent(parent_sd, old); + if (!sd) + goto out; + + result = -EINVAL; + if (sysfs_type(sd) != SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK) + goto out; + if (sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_dir.kobj != targ) + goto out; + + result = sysfs_rename(sd, parent_sd, new); + +out: + sysfs_put(sd); + return result; } static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, -- 1.6.3.1.54.g99dd.dirty -- 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