Re: [PATCH] Revert "debugfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative"

[Sinan Kaya]

On 10/6/2016 6:41 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 11:37:29PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
>> If you ever get NULL in ->d_parent of struct dentry instance, you are
>> practically certain to have a dangling pointer to memory that used to
>> contain a struct dentry at some point but got freed and reused since then.
> 
> ... which is what happens in your case, apparently.  ->stats is still
> pointing to a dentry that had just been freed and its memory reused.
> 

Thanks for explaining the behavior. I posted the change a minute ago
and forgot to include you. 

dmaengine: qcom_hidma: remove useless debugfs file removal

I have a very similar problem with sysfs now. It looks like the new kernel
is more assertive than the older ones. 

I'll post the sysfs change in a minute. 


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