[PATCH 1/2] sysfs: Allow removal of symlinks in the sysfs root

[Mark Fasheh]

Allow callers of sysfs_remove_link() to pass a NULL kobj, in which case
sysfs_root will be used as the parent directory. This allows us to tear down
top level symlinks created via sysfs_create_link(), which already has
similar handling of a NULL parent object.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/sysfs/symlink.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 5f66c44..817f596 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -87,7 +87,14 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
 
 void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name)
 {
-	sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, name);
+	struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd = NULL;
+
+	if (!kobj)
+		parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
+	else
+		parent_sd = kobj->sd;
+
+	sysfs_hash_and_remove(parent_sd, name);
 }
 
 static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
-- 
1.5.3.6

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