Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] cuse: do not register multiple devices with identical names

[Miklos Szeredi]

Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:45:48PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
>> Sysfs doesn't allow two devices with the same name, but we register a
>> sysfs entry for each cuse device without checking for name collisions.
>> This extends the registration to first check whether the name was already
>> registered.
>> 
>> To avoid race-conditions between the name-check and linking the device, we
>> need to protect the whole registration with a mutex.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, David.

Queued both patches for next tree.

Miklos
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