Re: [PATCH] binder: fix redefinition of seq_file attributes

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 09:21:52PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 06:13:40PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 06:20:41PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> > > +	binder_for_each_debugfs_entry(db_entry) {
> > > +		dentry = binderfs_create_file(binder_logs_root_dir,
> > > +					      db_entry->name,
> > > +					      db_entry->fops,
> > > +					      db_entry->data);
> > > +		if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
> > > +			ret = PTR_ERR(dentry);
> > > +			goto out;
> > > +		}
> > 
> > I know this is a copy of what is there already, but there is never a
> > need to check the result of a debugfs_create_* call.  Just call it and
> > move on, never "abort" based on the result of a debugfs call, that's not
> > a good idea.
> 
> This is true, none of these debugfs files seem critical for mounting a
> binderfs instance. I'm thinking init_binder_logs() should just return
> void. I'm only a bit hesitant to completely ignore the return code as
> users specifically ask for these files to be created via mount option
> "stats". So probably a pr_warn is what is actually needed here.

That would just be too noisy, just let it go, no one cares :)

> > So can you change this here, or want to send a follow-on patch that
> > removes these checks?
> 
> Sure, I'll send a follow-on patch. I'm currently AFK so setting ETA for
> next week until I can actually test this change.
> 
> > 
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > >  	proc_log_dir = binderfs_create_dir(binder_logs_root_dir, "proc");
> > 
> > Also there's never a need to save a directory, you can always look it up
> > when you want to remove it.
> 
> It seems this is a convenient way to share this path with binder which
> otherwise doesn't know where binderfs was mounted. From having a quick
> look it doesn't seem that we need to share all the details in struct
> binderfs_info though. Maybe there is a better way to handle all this.

Why would you need to share this internally with anything, again, it can
always be looked up if you need it.

thanks,

greg k-h