Bug 367351 - /sys contains a file name with \000 as the first character
Summary: /sys contains a file name with \000 as the first character
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 404251 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-05 19:57 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2007-12-05 20:44 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.23.8-63
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-12-05 20:44:25 UTC
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-05 19:57:01 UTC
Description of problem:

[lkundrak@pluto ~]$ ls -la /sys/module/nousb/parameters
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-11-05 15:43 
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-11-05 15:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-11-05 15:43 ..
[lkundrak@pluto ~]$

Please notice the file with name ""

[lkundrak@pluto ~]$ cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters
[lkundrak@pluto parameters]$ ls -la
ls: cannot access : No such file or directory
total 0
-????????? ? ?    ?    ?                ? 
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-11-05 15:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-11-05 15:43 ..
[lkundrak@pluto parameters]$ 

No idea why is this different

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8

How reproducible:

Seems reproducible on just one machine. I'll try not to reboot it.

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-05 20:33:56 UTC
Patch is already queued to fix this, it is upstream commit
faf8c714f4508207a9c81cc94dafc76ed6680b44.

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-29 14:48:12 UTC
*** Bug 404251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-29 14:52:58 UTC
In 2.6.23.8-63


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