From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757458AbZEWUO3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 16:14:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754689AbZEWUNu (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 16:13:50 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:55181 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754535AbZEWUNr (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 16:13:47 -0400 From: "Eric W. Biederman" To: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: , Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:13:09 -0700 Message-Id: <1243109591-21611-3-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.1.54.g99dd.dirty In-Reply-To: References: X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, ebiederm@aristanetworks.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa02 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 1.5 XMNoVowels Alpha-numberic number with no vowels * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% * [score: 0.0156] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa02 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 T_TooManySym_01 4+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 T_TooManySym_03 6+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral * 0.0 T_TooManySym_02 5+ unique symbols in subject * 0.4 UNTRUSTED_Relay Comes from a non-trusted relay Subject: [PATCH 23/20] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown. X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Eric W. Biederman device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not clean up any kernel data structures. Therefore don't put the kobjects for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char. This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 8a1569c..49d3142 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1653,7 +1653,4 @@ void device_shutdown(void) dev->driver->shutdown(dev); } } - kobject_put(sysfs_dev_char_kobj); - kobject_put(sysfs_dev_block_kobj); - kobject_put(dev_kobj); } -- 1.6.3.1.54.g99dd.dirty