I goofed when I made sysctl directories have nlink == 0. nlink == 0 means the directory has been deleted. nlink == 1 meands a directory does not count subdirectories. Use the default nlink == 1 for sysctl directories. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 06e6f10..f6aa751 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -253,7 +253,6 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb, inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_file_operations; } else { inode->i_mode |= S_IFDIR; - clear_nlink(inode); inode->i_op = &proc_sys_dir_operations; inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_dir_file_operations; } -- 1.7.2.5 -- 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