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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: check if one entry has been removed before freeing
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 23:04:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130403030403.GA26913@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364957903-10341-1-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com>

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:58:23AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
 
 > diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
 > index 1bf016b..328ef9b 100644
 > --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
 > +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
 > @@ -268,6 +268,13 @@ void release_sysfs_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * sd)
 >  	 */
 >  	parent_sd = sd->s_parent;
 >  
 > +	if (unlikely(!(sd->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED))) {
 > +		printk(KERN_ERR "sysfs: free using entry: %s/%s\n",
 > +			parent_sd ? parent_sd->s_name : "",
 > +			sd->s_name);
 > +		BUG();
 > +	}

Please use WARN instead of BUG.  For an in-ram filesystem like
sysfs, there's no real reason to lock-up the machine in this way
making it harder to debug.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-03  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03  2:58 [PATCH] sysfs: check if one entry has been removed before freeing Ming Lei
2013-04-03  3:04 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-04-03  3:52   ` Ming Lei
2013-04-03  5:35     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-03  7:05       ` Ming Lei
2013-04-03 16:08         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-04  9:36           ` Ming Lei

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