Merge tag 'driver-core-3.3-rc1-bugfixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Here are some patches for the 3.3-rc1 tree.

It contains the removal of the sysdev code, now that all users of it are
gone, as well as some sysfs bugfixes that have been reported by users.
There are also some documentation updates here as well.

* tag 'driver-core-3.3-rc1-bugfixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  sysfs: Complain bitterly about attempts to remove files from nonexistent directories.
  stable: update documentation to ask for kernel version
  base/core.c:fix typo in comment in function device_add
  Documentation: devres: add allocation functions to list of supported calls
  Documentation update for the driver model core
  kernel-doc: fix new warnings in driver-core
  kernel-doc: fix new warnings in debugfs
  kernel-doc: fix new warnings in device.h
  driver core: remove drivers/base/sys.c and include/linux/sysdev.h

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 62f4fb37789e..00012e31829d 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -493,6 +493,12 @@ int sysfs_attr_ns(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute *attr,
         const void *ns = NULL;
         int err;
 
+        if (!dir_sd) {
+                WARN(1, KERN_ERR "sysfs: kobject %s without dirent\n",
+                        kobject_name(kobj));
+                return -ENOENT;
+        }
+
         err = 0;
         if (!sysfs_ns_type(dir_sd))
                 goto out;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 4a802b4a9056..85eb81683a29 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -318,8 +318,11 @@ int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const void *ns, const cha
         struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;
         struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
 
-        if (!dir_sd)
+        if (!dir_sd) {
+                WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: can not remove '%s', no directory\n",
+                        name);
                 return -ENOENT;
+        }
 
         sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, dir_sd);