Commit ceeee1fb authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman

SYSFS: allow sysfs_create_link to create symlinks in the root of sysfs

This is needed to make the compatible link for /sys/block in the future.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 6468b3af
......@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
......@@ -82,10 +83,19 @@ static int sysfs_add_link(struct dentry * parent, const char * name, struct kobj
*/
int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char * name)
{
struct dentry * dentry = kobj->dentry;
struct dentry *dentry = NULL;
int error = -EEXIST;
BUG_ON(!kobj || !kobj->dentry || !name);
BUG_ON(!name);
if (!kobj) {
if (sysfs_mount && sysfs_mount->mnt_sb)
dentry = sysfs_mount->mnt_sb->s_root;
} else
dentry = kobj->dentry;
if (!dentry)
return -EFAULT;
mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
if (!sysfs_dirent_exist(dentry->d_fsdata, name))
......
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