devtmpfs: get rid of bogus mkdir in create_path()

We do _NOT_ want to mkdir the path itself - we are preparing to
mknod it, after all.  Normally it'll fail with -ENOENT and
just do nothing, but if somebody has created the parent in
the meanwhile, we'll get buggered...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index a49897d053254a30228362ff1b5d396a3ca24624..6d678c99512e383ea9c7dee9dd1c5519151768ef 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -164,34 +164,28 @@ static int dev_mkdir(const char *name, mode_t mode)
 
 static int create_path(const char *nodepath)
 {
+       char *path;
+       char *s;
        int err;
 
-       err = dev_mkdir(nodepath, 0755);
-       if (err == -ENOENT) {
-               char *path;
-               char *s;
+       /* parent directories do not exist, create them */
+       path = kstrdup(nodepath, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!path)
+               return -ENOMEM;
 
-               /* parent directories do not exist, create them */
-               path = kstrdup(nodepath, GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!path) {
-                       err = -ENOMEM;
-                       goto out;
-               }
-               s = path;
-               for (;;) {
-                       s = strchr(s, '/');
-                       if (!s)
-                               break;
-                       s[0] = '\0';
-                       err = dev_mkdir(path, 0755);
-                       if (err && err != -EEXIST)
-                               break;
-                       s[0] = '/';
-                       s++;
-               }
-               kfree(path);
+       s = path;
+       for (;;) {
+               s = strchr(s, '/');
+               if (!s)
+                       break;
+               s[0] = '\0';
+               err = dev_mkdir(path, 0755);
+               if (err && err != -EEXIST)
+                       break;
+               s[0] = '/';
+               s++;
        }
-out:
+       kfree(path);
        return err;
 }