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sysfs: sysfs_add_one WARNs with full path to duplicate filename

As a debugging aid, it can be useful to know the full path to a
duplicate file being created in sysfs.

We now will display warnings such as:

	sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/foo'

when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' in the sysfs
root, or:

	sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/pci/slots/5/foo'

when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' under a
given directory in sysfs.

The path displayed is always a relative path to sysfs_root. The
leading '/' in the path name refers to the sysfs_root mount
point, and should not be confused with the "real" '/'.

Thanks to Alex Williamson for essentially writing sysfs_pathname.

Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Alex Chiang authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Mar 24, 2009
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32 changes: 30 additions & 2 deletions fs/sysfs/dir.c
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Expand Up @@ -433,6 +433,26 @@ int __sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
return 0;
}

/**
* sysfs_pathname - return full path to sysfs dirent
* @sd: sysfs_dirent whose path we want
* @path: caller allocated buffer
*
* Gives the name "/" to the sysfs_root entry; any path returned
* is relative to wherever sysfs is mounted.
*
* XXX: does no error checking on @path size
*/
static char *sysfs_pathname(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, char *path)
{
if (sd->s_parent) {
sysfs_pathname(sd->s_parent, path);
strcat(path, "/");
}
strcat(path, sd->s_name);
return path;
}

/**
* sysfs_add_one - add sysfs_dirent to parent
* @acxt: addrm context to use
Expand All @@ -458,8 +478,16 @@ int sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
int ret;

ret = __sysfs_add_one(acxt, sd);
WARN(ret == -EEXIST, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' "
"can not be created\n", sd->s_name);
if (ret == -EEXIST) {
char *path = kzalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
WARN(1, KERN_WARNING
"sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '%s'\n",
(path == NULL) ? sd->s_name :
strcat(strcat(sysfs_pathname(acxt->parent_sd, path), "/"),
sd->s_name));
kfree(path);
}

return ret;
}

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