Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
  sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
  Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()
  HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
  dev_vdbg() documentation
  dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
  sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static
  sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting
  Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
  sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
  PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
  PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
  Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
  debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 2f86e04..4ce687f 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
 	sd = sysfs_new_dirent(name, S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO, SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK);
 	if (!sd)
 		goto out_put;
+
 	sd->s_elem.symlink.target_sd = target_sd;
+	target_sd = NULL;	/* reference is now owned by the symlink */
 
 	sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, parent_sd);
 
@@ -95,11 +97,13 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
 		sysfs_link_sibling(sd);
 	}
 
-	if (sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt))
-		return 0;
+	if (!sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt)) {
+		error = -EEXIST;
+		goto out_put;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 
-	error = -EEXIST;
-	/* fall through */
  out_put:
 	sysfs_put(target_sd);
 	sysfs_put(sd);