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sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure
When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files() fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on the group directory. In the update path, kn was obtained via kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed before this call. Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the caller did not create. Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves. On update failure the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry. Cc: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com> Fixes: c855cf2 ("sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates") Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_t1000 Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026052003-uniquely-hastily-c093@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static int internal_create_group(struct kobject *kobj, int update,
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kernfs_get(kn);
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error = create_files(kn, kobj, uid, gid, grp, update);
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if (error) {
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if (grp->name)
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if (grp->name && !update)
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kernfs_remove(kn);
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}
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kernfs_put(kn);

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