On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:31:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:59 -0700 Andrew Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The buf in fs/sysfs.c:subsys_attr_store() does not seem to be updated > > correctly when returning a negative value (indicating that an error > > condition has occurred) is returned. If a negative value is returned, > > the next subsequent call to subsys_attr_store will have the contents of > > buf appended to the previous call. > > subsys_attr_store() gets deleted by > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/kset-kill-subsys-attr.patch > > So maybe we will soon accidentally fix whatever-this-is? Or maybe we will > faithfully maintain it.
Yes, subsys attributes go away, but this is showing a bug in the sysfs core with attributes, not in the "middle" layers of attributes. I bounced the original bug report to Tejun, who has been changing the logic around this area to see if he sees anything that might be different now. Tejun? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
