Greg Kroah-Hartman c5e125c828 sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure ...

commit 237557b8a8 upstream.

When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files()
fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on
the group directory.  In the update path, kn was obtained via
kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed
before this call.  Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the
caller did not create.

Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves.  On update failure
the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside
create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry.

Cc: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Fixes: c855cf2759 ("sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_t1000
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026052003-uniquely-hastily-c093@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2026-06-01 17:29:50 +02:00

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dir.c

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file.c

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group.c

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Kconfig

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Makefile

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mount.c

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symlink.c

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sysfs.h

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