Re: [RFC][PATCH] debugfs: Fix corrupted loop in debugfs_remove_recursive

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:33:57AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 14:06:07 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > [ I'm currently running my tests on it now, and so far, after a few
> >  hours it has yet to blow up. I'll run it for 24 hours which it never
> >  succeeded in the past. ]
> 
> I ran with this patch on three boxes all night, one for 24 hours. No
> problems. I stopped the tests, removed the patch, ran the test on the
> same boxes and they all crashed within an hour.
> 
> This patch definitely fixes the bug.
> 
> The test I ran was:
> 
> while :; do
>  ./ftrace-test-mkinstances || break
>  ./ftrace-test-mkinstances-2 || break
> done
> 
> Note, the tests expect debugfs to be mounted at /debug.

Well, those are some broken tests :)

Anyway, thanks for the patch, I'll queue it up after 3.16-rc1 is out.

greg k-h
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