Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
  sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
  Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()
  HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
  dev_vdbg() documentation
  dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
  sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static
  sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting
  Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
  sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
  PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
  PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
  Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
  debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index cc497994b2a8..3e1cc062a740 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -410,11 +410,12 @@ int sysfs_add_file(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const struct attribute *attr,
                 sysfs_link_sibling(sd);
         }
 
-        if (sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt))
-                return 0;
+        if (!sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt)) {
+                sysfs_put(sd);
+                return -EEXIST;
+        }
 
-        sysfs_put(sd);
-        return -EEXIST;
+        return 0;
 }