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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Subject: [RFC] configfs_unregister_group() API
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:13:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190730211355.GU1131@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)

	AFAICS, it (and configfs_unregister_default_group())
will break if called with group non-empty (i.e. when rmdir(2)
would've failed with -ENOTEMPTY); configfs_detach_prep()
is called, but return value is completely ignored.

	Similar breakage happens in configfs_unregister_subsystem(),
but there it looks like the drivers are responsible for not calling
it that way.  It yells if configfs_detach_prep() fails and AFAICS
all callers do guarantee it never happens.

	configfs_unregister_group() is quiet; from my reading of
the callers, only pci-endpoint might end up calling it for group
that is not guaranteed to be empty.  I'm not familiar with
pci-endpoint guts, so I might very well be missing something there.

Questions to configfs API maintainers (that'd be Christoph, these
days, AFAIK)

1) should such a call be considered a driver bug?
2) should configfs_unregister_group() at least warn when that happens?

and, to pci-endpoint maintainer

3) what, if anything, prevents such calls in pci-endpoint?  Because
as it is, configfs will break badly when that happens...

             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-30 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-30 21:13 Al Viro [this message]
2019-08-02  3:35 ` [RFC] configfs_unregister_group() API Al Viro
2019-08-02  6:52 ` Christoph Hellwig

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