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

[Tejun Heo]

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!

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tejun
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