Re: [PATCH -next v2 0/3] cleanup of devtmpfs_*_node()
From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 10 2023 - 05:27:17 EST
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 09:54:41AM +0000, Longlong Xia wrote:
> In one test, when modprobe zram, no zram device was found in the /dev.
> But don't see any errors printed in jouranls/dmesg. Later we found out
> that the reason was that device_add() did not check its return value when
> calling devtmpfs_create_node().
>
> The test steps:
> 1. Set the SElinux label of /dev to user_home_t
> 2. modprobe zram num_devices=1000
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - New patch 1 to add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node().
> - use dev_err() to replace pr_err_ratelimited in [2].
> - only remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node() in [3].
>
> Longlong Xia (3):
> driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()
> devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()
> devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()
>
> drivers/base/base.h | 4 ++--
> drivers/base/core.c | 6 +++++-
> drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Thanks for the quick resend, nice work, all now queued up!
greg k-h