sysfs: spit a warning to users when they try to create a duplicate sysfs file

We want to let people know when we create a duplicate sysfs file, as
they need to fix up their code.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index da4bb66a610c..5d95aa8e23c6 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -428,8 +428,12 @@ void sysfs_addrm_start(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt,
  */
 int sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 {
-        if (sysfs_find_dirent(acxt->parent_sd, sd->s_name))
+        if (sysfs_find_dirent(acxt->parent_sd, sd->s_name)) {
+                printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' "
+                       "can not be created\n", sd->s_name);
+                WARN_ON(1);
                 return -EEXIST;
+        }
 
         sd->s_parent = sysfs_get(acxt->parent_sd);