I goofed when I made sysctl directories have nlink == 0.
nlink == 0 means the directory has been deleted.
nlink == 1 meands a directory does not count subdirectories.
Use the default nlink == 1 for sysctl directories.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <redacted>
---
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 06e6f10..f6aa751 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -253,7 +253,6 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb,
inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_file_operations;
} else {
inode->i_mode |= S_IFDIR;
- clear_nlink(inode);
inode->i_op = &proc_sys_dir_operations;
inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_dir_file_operations;
}--
1.7.2.5