Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:44:04 -0800 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] cuse: do not register multiple devices with the same name |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:23:17PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > We do not check whether we already registered a CUSE device with a given > name so we might end up with two devices with the same name. Sysfs will > then complain as it cannot create suitable directories. > > This patch makes the init-command fail if there is already a device with > the given name. To avoid race-conditions, we protect the whole > registration with a mutex now. > > Following the sysfs warnings when registering two devices with the same > name: ... > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
But it probably would be better to separate out mutex conversion as a separate patch.
Thanks!
-- tejun
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