On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Hillf Danton <dhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> init rb node before use due to empty node checked by rb_next().
>
> --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c    Sat Mar 16 20:12:16 2013
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c    Sat Mar 16 20:37:10 2013
> @@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(co
>
>         atomic_set(&sd->s_count, 1);
>         atomic_set(&sd->s_active, 0);
> +       rb_init_node(&sd->s_rb);

Looks there is no the symbol in linus tree, and not necessary since
rb_link_node() may initialize the node correctly.

Also I can't reproduce the problem on my Pandaboard with trinity, maybe
the below debug code can find the name of the affected node if anyone
would like to test it.

--
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 2fbdff6..9aa11c7 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -281,6 +281,10 @@ void release_sysfs_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * sd)
         */
        parent_sd = sd->s_parent;

+       if(!(sd->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED))
+               printk("%s sysfs_dirent use after free: %s-%s\n",
+                       __func__, parent_sd->s_name, sd->s_name);
+
        if (sysfs_type(sd) == SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK)
                sysfs_put(sd->s_symlink.target_sd);
        if (sysfs_type(sd) & SYSFS_COPY_NAME)
@@ -962,6 +966,9 @@ static struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_dir_pos(const void *ns,
                int valid = !(pos->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED) &&
                        pos->s_parent == parent_sd &&
                        hash == pos->s_hash;
+               if (valid && (atomic_read(&pos->s_count) <= 1))
+                       printk("%s sysfs_dirent use after free: %s-%s\n",
+                               __func__, parent_sd->s_name, pos->s_name);
                sysfs_put(pos);
                if (!valid)
                        pos = NULL;


Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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