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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2009-10-06 15:33:35 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-10-14 15:16:25 -0700
commita6a8357788d6a37f8ad0f7eb46b0a386b613abb9 (patch)
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parent80f506918fdaaca6b574ba931536a58ce015c7be (diff)
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sysfs: Allow sysfs_move_dir(..., NULL) again.
As device_move() and kobject_move() both handle a NULL destination, sysfs_move_dir() should do this as well (again) and fall back to sysfs_root in that case. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 0050fc40e8c..5fad489ce5b 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -894,7 +894,8 @@ int sysfs_move_dir(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent_kobj)
mutex_lock(&sysfs_rename_mutex);
BUG_ON(!sd->s_parent);
- new_parent_sd = new_parent_kobj->sd ? new_parent_kobj->sd : &sysfs_root;
+ new_parent_sd = (new_parent_kobj && new_parent_kobj->sd) ?
+ new_parent_kobj->sd : &sysfs_root;
error = 0;
if (sd->s_parent == new_parent_sd)