Re: [PATCH 2/2] debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 10:16:49PM +0000, Aaron Thompson wrote:
> On 12/1/25 09:15, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:26:33AM +0000, Aaron Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > > debugfs access modes were added in Linux 5.10 (Dec 2020) [1], but the
> > > no-mount mode has behaved effectively the same as the off mode since
> > > Linux 5.12 (Apr 2021) [2]. The only difference is the specific error
> > > code returned by the debugfs_create_* functions, which is -ENOENT in
> > > no-mount mode and -EPERM in off mode.
> > 
> > I'm seeing regressions in -next in a lot of testing stuff which bisect
> > to this patch.  I've got a test that looks at the deferred probe list to
> > see if it's empty, and the mm split_huge_page_test which uses a debugfs
> > file called split_huge_pages.  Neither of these mount debugfs for
> > themselves, they just assume it'll be there - it looks like that's not
> > happening any more but I didn't investigate properly.
> > 
> > I don't immediately see what's getting confused, DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL is
> > the default and not overridden by anything in any defconfig so
> > debugfs_enabled still ought to be being set, but I didn't actually try
> > to debug this yet.
> > 
> > Sample bisect:
> > 
> > git bisect start
> > # status: waiting for both good and bad commits
> > ...
> > # bad: [f278809475f6835b56de78b28dc2cc0c7e2c20a4] debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
> > git bisect bad f278809475f6835b56de78b28dc2cc0c7e2c20a4
> > # first bad commit: [f278809475f6835b56de78b28dc2cc0c7e2c20a4] debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
> 
> I am terribly sorry, this was a sloppy mistake on my part. The IS_ENABLED()
> check is missing the CONFIG_ prefix. The fix patch is attached.
> 
> Greg, should I send a v2 of the patch series, or a separate patch with just
> the fix? Or something else? Again, sorry for the trouble.

Just the fix please, I can't rebase my tree.

thanks,

greg k-h