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: (23 commits)
  [PATCH] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path
  [PATCH] sysfs: don't export dir symbols
  [PATCH] get_cpu_sysdev() signedness fix
  [PATCH] kobject_add_dir
  [PATCH] debugfs: Add debugfs_create_blob() helper for exporting binary data
  [PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files
  [PATCH] Kobject: kobject.h: fix a typo
  [PATCH] Kobject: provide better warning messages when people do stupid things
  [PATCH] Driver core: add macros notice(), dev_notice()
  [PATCH] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_buffer
  [PATCH] sysfs: kzalloc conversion
  [PATCH] fix module sysfs files reference counting
  [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to USB subsystem
  [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to RCU subsystem
  [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE()
  [PATCH] Clean up module.c symbol searching logic
  [PATCH] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversion
  [PATCH] kref: avoid an atomic operation in kref_put()
  [PATCH] handle errors returned by platform_get_irq*()
  [PATCH] driver core: platform_get_irq*(): return -ENXIO on error
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index d0e3d849516..5e83e724678 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -301,9 +301,8 @@ static int check_perm(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
 	/* No error? Great, allocate a buffer for the file, and store it
 	 * it in file->private_data for easy access.
 	 */
-	buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer),GFP_KERNEL);
+	buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (buffer) {
-		memset(buffer,0,sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer));
 		init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
 		buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
 		buffer->ops = ops;
@@ -362,10 +361,12 @@ int sysfs_add_file(struct dentry * dir, const struct attribute * attr, int type)
 {
 	struct sysfs_dirent * parent_sd = dir->d_fsdata;
 	umode_t mode = (attr->mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG;
-	int error = 0;
+	int error = -EEXIST;
 
 	mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
-	error = sysfs_make_dirent(parent_sd, NULL, (void *) attr, mode, type);
+	if (!sysfs_dirent_exist(parent_sd, attr->name))
+		error = sysfs_make_dirent(parent_sd, NULL, (void *)attr,
+					  mode, type);
 	mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
 	return error;