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Commit d3300212 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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sysfs: allow creating symlinks from untagged to tagged directories 



Supporting symlinks from untagged to tagged directories is reasonable,
and needed to support CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED.  So don't fail a prior
allowing that case to work.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 521d0453

fs/sysfs/symlink.c

+2 −1
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@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static int sysfs_do_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target, 


	sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, parent_sd);

	/* Symlinks must be between directories with the same ns_type */

	if (ns_type == sysfs_ns_type(sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_parent)) {

	if (!ns_type ||

	    (ns_type == sysfs_ns_type(sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_parent))) {

		if (warn)

			error = sysfs_add_one(&acxt, sd);

		else