From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: hide illegible sysfs warning of kobject_del()
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:26:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y23rC0N1cL2LQpyF@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221111065807.3278713-1-liushixin2@huawei.com>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 02:58:07PM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> Some consumers do not care whether kobject_add() succeed or failed such as
> irqdesc. They call kobject_del() all the time even if kobject_add() failed.
> Then kernel will report some illegible sysfs warning like this:
>
> kernfs: can not remove 'actions', no directory
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 277 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1615 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xd5/0xe0
Why not fix the caller here? Is that somehow not possible?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-11 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-11 6:58 [PATCH] kobject: hide illegible sysfs warning of kobject_del() Liu Shixin
2022-11-11 6:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-11-11 8:27 ` Liu Shixin
2022-11-11 9:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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