sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs. To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *sysfs_dir_cachep;
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static const struct super_operations sysfs_ops = {
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.statfs = simple_statfs,
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.drop_inode = generic_delete_inode,
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.delete_inode = sysfs_delete_inode,
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};
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struct sysfs_dirent sysfs_root = {
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