From a839c5afcdc345aecb35b0d3bcd0e09b571329c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:35:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: Allow removal of symlinks in the sysfs root
Allow callers of sysfs_remove_link() to pass a NULL kobj, in which case
sysfs_root will be used as the parent directory. This allows us to tear down
top level symlinks created via sysfs_create_link(), which already has
similar handling of a NULL parent object.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 5f66c4466151..817f5966edca 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -87,7 +87,14 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name)
{
- sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, name);
+ struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd = NULL;
+
+ if (!kobj)
+ parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
+ else
+ parent_sd = kobj->sd;
+
+ sysfs_hash_and_remove(parent_sd, name);
}
static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,