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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-03-17 14:14:12 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-03-17 14:14:12 -0400
commit325d1605542960903c88409b199734a3d8fc6612 (patch)
tree9d8eeed393a3b5dcadd1ddb6b76634b464fd6bc7 /fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
parent3c5ead52ed68406c0ee789024c4ae581be8bcee4 (diff)
parent521cb40b0c44418a4fd36dc633f575813d59a43d (diff)
Merge tag 'v2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 09a1f92a34e..8eb2522111c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -408,15 +408,18 @@ static int proc_sys_compare(const struct dentry *parent,
const struct dentry *dentry, const struct inode *inode,
unsigned int len, const char *str, const struct qstr *name)
{
+ struct ctl_table_header *head;
/* Although proc doesn't have negative dentries, rcu-walk means
* that inode here can be NULL */
+ /* AV: can it, indeed? */
if (!inode)
- return 0;
+ return 1;
if (name->len != len)
return 1;
if (memcmp(name->name, str, len))
return 1;
- return !sysctl_is_seen(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
+ head = rcu_dereference(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
+ return !head || !sysctl_is_seen(head);
}
static const struct dentry_operations proc_sys_dentry_operations = {