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Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:20:46 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
        Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the driver-core tree with the
 net-next tree
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 03:12:24PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the driver-core tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   fs/sysfs/group.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   5f81880d5204 ("sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users")
> 
> from the net-next tree and commit:
> 
>   c855cf2759d2 ("sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates")
> 
> from the driver-core tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (I think - see below) and can carry the fix as
> necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any
> non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer
> when your tree is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider
> cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any
> particularly complex conflicts.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
> 
> diff --cc fs/sysfs/group.c
> index c7a716c4acc9,38240410f831..000000000000
> --- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
> @@@ -122,15 -118,23 +122,24 @@@ static int internal_create_group(struc
>   			kobj->name, grp->name ?: "");
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   	}
>  +	kobject_get_ownership(kobj, &uid, &gid);
>   	if (grp->name) {
> - 		kn = kernfs_create_dir_ns(kobj->sd, grp->name,
> - 					  S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
> - 					  uid, gid, kobj, NULL);
> - 		if (IS_ERR(kn)) {
> - 			if (PTR_ERR(kn) == -EEXIST)
> - 				sysfs_warn_dup(kobj->sd, grp->name);
> - 			return PTR_ERR(kn);
> + 		if (update) {
> + 			kn = kernfs_find_and_get(kobj->sd, grp->name);
> + 			if (!kn) {
> + 				pr_warn("Can't update unknown attr grp name: %s/%s\n",
> + 					kobj->name, grp->name);
> + 				return -EINVAL;
> + 			}
> + 		} else {
>  -			kn = kernfs_create_dir(kobj->sd, grp->name,
>  -					       S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
>  -					       kobj);
> ++			kn = kernfs_create_dir_ns(kobj->sd, grp->name,
> ++						  S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
> ++						  uid, gid, kobj, NULL);
> + 			if (IS_ERR(kn)) {
> + 				if (PTR_ERR(kn) == -EEXIST)
> + 					sysfs_warn_dup(kobj->sd, grp->name);
> + 				return PTR_ERR(kn);
> + 			}
>   		}
>   	} else
>   		kn = kobj->sd;


I think this is correct.  Rajat, can you verify it please?

thanks,

greg k-h