From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754682Ab2AaO4n (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:56:43 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:52871 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753237Ab2AaO4l (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:56:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: G65+P8p6EsGN+o9EnN8q/oiRXnLHyB9xzeX9Xo2onidS 1328021800 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:55:58 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , LKML , ML netdev , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries Message-ID: <20120131145558.GA27810@kroah.com> References: <4F27120A.4040106@suse.cz> <4F27C54F.1010107@suse.cz> <4F27C9D4.3040105@suse.cz> <4F27CDBC.5020201@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:40:26AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > This fixes a bug introduced with sysfs name hashes where renaming a > network device appears to succeed but silently makes the sysfs files for > that network device inaccessible. > > In at least one configuration this bug has stopped networking from > coming up during boot. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman > --- > fs/sysfs/dir.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Thanks for this, I'll queue it up later today. greg k-h