Merge tag 'driver-core-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the driver-core / kobject / lz4 tree update for 4.1-rc1.

  Everything here has been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues.  It's mostly just coding style cleanups, with other minor
  changes in here as well, nothing big"

* tag 'driver-core-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (32 commits)
  debugfs: allow bad parent pointers to be passed in
  stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.
  kobject: WARN as tip when call kobject_get() to a kobject not initialized
  lib/lz4: Pull out constant tables
  drivers: platform: parse IRQ flags from resources
  driver core: Make probe deferral more quiet
  drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node
  device: Add dev_of_node() accessor
  drivers: base: fw: fix ret value when loading fw
  firmware: Avoid manual device_create_file() calls
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: validate device node for all the caches
  drivers/base: use tabs where possible in code indentation
  driver core: add missing blank line after declaration
  drivers: base: node: Delete space after pointer declaration
  drivers: base: memory: Use tabs instead of spaces
  firmware_class: Fix whitespace and indentation
  drivers: base: dma-mapping: Erase blank space after pointer
  drivers: base: class: Add a blank line after declarations
  attribute_container: fix missing blank lines after declarations
  drivers: base: memory: Fix switch indent
  ...

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index 96400ab42d13..61e72d44cf94 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -254,6 +254,9 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 
 	pr_debug("debugfs: creating file '%s'\n",name);
 
+	if (IS_ERR(parent))
+		return parent;
+
 	error = simple_pin_fs(&debug_fs_type, &debugfs_mount,
 			      &debugfs_mount_count);
 	if (error)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index 2554d8835b48..b400c04371f0 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int create_files(struct kernfs_node *parent, struct kobject *kobj,
 
 	if (grp->attrs) {
 		for (i = 0, attr = grp->attrs; *attr && !error; i++, attr++) {
-			umode_t mode = 0;
+			umode_t mode = (*attr)->mode;
 
 			/*
 			 * In update mode, we're changing the permissions or
@@ -55,9 +55,14 @@ static int create_files(struct kernfs_node *parent, struct kobject *kobj,
 				if (!mode)
 					continue;
 			}
+
+			WARN(mode & ~(SYSFS_PREALLOC | 0664),
+			     "Attribute %s: Invalid permissions 0%o\n",
+			     (*attr)->name, mode);
+
+			mode &= SYSFS_PREALLOC | 0664;
 			error = sysfs_add_file_mode_ns(parent, *attr, false,
-						       (*attr)->mode | mode,
-						       NULL);
+						       mode, NULL);
 			if (unlikely(error))
 				break;
 		}