On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:28:10AM +0000, Lisa Du wrote:
> Hi, All
> Recently I met one race condition related to debugfs.
>
> Take an example from ion.c in kernel3.14:
> static int ion_debug_client_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> {
> return single_open(file, ion_debug_client_show, inode->i_private);
> }
>
> static const struct file_operations debug_client_fops = {
> .open = ion_debug_client_open,
> .read = seq_read,
> .llseek = seq_lseek,
> .release = single_release,
> };
> client->debug_root = debugfs_create_file(client->display_name, 0664,
> dev->clients_debug_root,
> client, &debug_client_fops);
>
> I find during I read the debugfs node, driver can do
> debugfs_remove_recursive(dentry);
> Is it expected?
Yes. Well, not "expected", but a mess, yes.
Removing debugfs files are known to have lots of races, this isn't the
only one :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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