On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:44:20AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:58:05 -0400
> Chengyu Song <cson...@gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> > debugfs_create_dir and debugfs_create_file may return -ENODEV when debugfs
> > is not configured, so the return value should be checked against ERROR_VALUE
> > as well, otherwise the later dereference of the dentry pointer would crash
> > the kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chengyu Song <cson...@gatech.edu>
> > ---
> > fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c | 12 ++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c b/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c
> > index c16bf5a..621d065 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c
> > @@ -132,19 +132,23 @@ int nfsd_fault_inject_init(void)
> > unsigned int i;
> > struct nfsd_fault_inject_op *op;
> > umode_t mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> > + struct dentry *dent;
> >
> > - debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir("nfsd", NULL);
> > - if (!debug_dir)
> > + dent = debugfs_create_dir("nfsd", NULL);
> > + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dent))
> > goto fail;
> > + debug_dir = dent;
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < NUM_INJECT_OPS; i++) {
> > op = &inject_ops[i];
> > - if (!debugfs_create_file(op->file, mode, debug_dir, op,
> > &fops_nfsd))
> > + dent = debugfs_create_file(op->file, mode, debug_dir, op,
> > &fops_nfsd);
> > + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dent))
> > goto fail;
> > +
> > }
> > return 0;
> >
> > fail:
> > nfsd_fault_inject_cleanup();
> > - return -ENOMEM;
> > + return dent ? PTR_ERR(dent) : -ENOMEM;
> > }
>
> No objection to taking this patch in the near term if it helps, but we
> had discussed over the summer just removing the NFS fault injection
> framework.
>
> Bruce, any objections to making that happen for v4.1?
I was prepared to, but I think Redhat QA people told me that they do use
it--which means other people may too, so I'm sort of reluctant to tear
it out even if it's imperfect.
--b.
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