Re: [PATCH] irqdomain: remove debugfs_file from struct irq_domain

[Michael Walle]

Am 2021-02-18 08:31, schrieb Greg KH:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 09:50:38PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:10:50 +0000,
> > Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Am 2021-02-17 21:02, schrieb Marc Zyngier:
> > > > On 2021-02-17 19:57, Michael Walle wrote:
> > > >> Hi Greg,
> > > >>
> > > >>> There's no need to keep around a dentry pointer to a simple file that
> > > >>> debugfs itself can look up when we need to remove it from the system.
> > > >>> So simplify the code by deleting the variable and cleaning up the
> > > >>> logic
> > > >>> around the debugfs file.
> > > >>
> > > >> This will generate the following oops on my board (arm64,
> > > >> freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28-var3-ads2.dts). In debugfs_lookup()
> > > >> debugfs_mount is NULL.
> > > >
> > > > That's odd. I gave it a go yesterday, and nothing blew up.
> > > > Which makes me wonder whether I had the debug stuff enabled
> > > > the first place...
> > > >
> > > > I've dropped the patch from -next for now until I figure it out
> > > > (probably tomorrow).
> > >
> > > Mh, maybe its my .config, I've attached it. I also noticed that
> > > the board boots just fine in our kernel-ci [1].
> >
> > I reproduced here. I had disabled GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS for obscure
> > reasons, and it caught fire as I re-enabled it.
> >
> > Adding this fixes it for me:
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c b/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
> > index 367ff1c35f75..d8a14cf1a7b6 100644
> > --- a/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
> > +++ b/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
> > @@ -1904,7 +1904,8 @@ static void debugfs_add_domain_dir(struct 
> > irq_domain *d)
> >
> >  static void debugfs_remove_domain_dir(struct irq_domain *d)
> >  {
> > -	debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(d->name, domain_dir));
> > +	if (domain_dir)
> > +		debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(d->name, domain_dir));
> >  }
> >
> >  void __init irq_domain_debugfs_init(struct dentry *root)
> >
> >
> > Could you please check whether it works for you?
>
> Can you try this debugfs core change instead?  Callers to debugfs 
> should
> not have to do the above type of checking as debugfs should be much 
> more
> robust than that.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> index 2fcf66473436..5aa798f52b6e 100644
> --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_lookup(const char *name,
> struct dentry *parent)
>  {
>  	struct dentry *dentry;
>
> -	if (IS_ERR(parent))
> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(name) || IS_ERR(parent))
>  		return NULL;
>
>  	if (!parent)

This doesn't work. name is not NULL when it is called.

What has to happen before debugfs_lookup() can be called? Looks like
someone has to initialize the static debugfs_mount, first.

-michael