[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings

Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

4 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_ppc64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_ppc64.c
index dd7001cacf75..3d437c32546e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_ppc64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_ppc64.c
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ static int __init proc_ppc64_init(void)
         pde = create_proc_entry("ppc64/systemcfg", S_IFREG|S_IRUGO, NULL);
         if (!pde)
                 return 1;
-        pde->nlink = 1;
         pde->data = vdso_data;
         pde->size = PAGE_SIZE;
         pde->proc_fops = &page_map_fops;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
index 0c4fcd34bfe5..65e4ebe8db31 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
@@ -708,7 +708,6 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *create_flash_pde(const char *filename,
 
         ent = create_proc_entry(filename, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR, NULL);
         if (ent != NULL) {
-                ent->nlink = 1;
                 ent->proc_fops = fops;
                 ent->owner = THIS_MODULE;
         }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c
index 1ad0e4aaad1a..90d3d49f713e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c
@@ -1253,7 +1253,6 @@ static int __init mf_proc_init(void)
                 ent = create_proc_entry("cmdline", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR, mf);
                 if (!ent)
                         return 1;
-                ent->nlink = 1;
                 ent->data = (void *)(long)i;
                 ent->read_proc = proc_mf_dump_cmdline;
                 ent->write_proc = proc_mf_change_cmdline;
@@ -1264,7 +1263,6 @@ static int __init mf_proc_init(void)
                 ent = create_proc_entry("vmlinux", S_IFREG|S_IWUSR, mf);
                 if (!ent)
                         return 1;
-                ent->nlink = 1;
                 ent->data = (void *)(long)i;
                 ent->proc_fops = &proc_vmlinux_operations;
         }
@@ -1272,7 +1270,6 @@ static int __init mf_proc_init(void)
         ent = create_proc_entry("side", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR, mf_proc_root);
         if (!ent)
                 return 1;
-        ent->nlink = 1;
         ent->data = (void *)0;
         ent->read_proc = proc_mf_dump_side;
         ent->write_proc = proc_mf_change_side;
@@ -1280,7 +1277,6 @@ static int __init mf_proc_init(void)
         ent = create_proc_entry("src", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR, mf_proc_root);
         if (!ent)
                 return 1;
-        ent->nlink = 1;
         ent->data = (void *)0;
         ent->read_proc = proc_mf_dump_src;
         ent->write_proc = proc_mf_change_src;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
index 4ad33e41b008..789a5e99aefd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
@@ -513,7 +513,6 @@ static int proc_ppc64_create_ofdt(void)
 
         ent = create_proc_entry("ppc64/ofdt", S_IWUSR, NULL);
         if (ent) {
-                ent->nlink = 1;
                 ent->data = NULL;
                 ent->size = 0;
                 ent->proc_fops = &ofdt_fops;