configfs: Prevent duplicate subsystem names.

For all child objects, creation comes through mkdir(2), so duplicate names
are prevented.

Subsystems, though, are registered by client drivers at init_module()/__init
time.  This patch prevents duplicate subsystem names.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index df025453dd9..816e8ef6456 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -86,6 +86,32 @@ static struct configfs_dirent *configfs_new_dirent(struct configfs_dirent * pare
         return sd;
 }
 
+/*
+ *
+ * Return -EEXIST if there is already a configfs element with the same
+ * name for the same parent.
+ *
+ * called with parent inode's i_mutex held
+ */
+int configfs_dirent_exists(struct configfs_dirent *parent_sd,
+                           const unsigned char *new)
+{
+        struct configfs_dirent * sd;
+
+        list_for_each_entry(sd, &parent_sd->s_children, s_sibling) {
+                if (sd->s_element) {
+                        const unsigned char *existing = configfs_get_name(sd);
+                        if (strcmp(existing, new))
+                                continue;
+                        else
+                                return -EEXIST;
+                }
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+
 int configfs_make_dirent(struct configfs_dirent * parent_sd,
                          struct dentry * dentry, void * element,
                          umode_t mode, int type)
@@ -136,8 +162,10 @@ static int create_dir(struct config_item * k, struct dentry * p,
         int error;
         umode_t mode = S_IFDIR| S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
 
-        error = configfs_make_dirent(p->d_fsdata, d, k, mode,
-                                     CONFIGFS_DIR);
+        error = configfs_dirent_exists(p->d_fsdata, d->d_name.name);
+        if (!error)
+                error = configfs_make_dirent(p->d_fsdata, d, k, mode,
+                                             CONFIGFS_DIR);
         if (!error) {
                 error = configfs_create(d, mode, init_dir);
                 if (!error) {