Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 5f66c4466151..817f5966edca 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -87,7 +87,14 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
 
 void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name)
 {
-        sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, name);
+        struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd = NULL;
+
+        if (!kobj)
+                parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
+        else
+                parent_sd = kobj->sd;
+
+        sysfs_hash_and_remove(parent_sd, name);
 }
 
 static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,