linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] nfs: fix kernel warning when removing proc entry

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:41:23 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	Dan Aloni <dan@...nelim.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nfs: fix kernel warning when removing proc entry

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:20:38PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > I saw the following kernel warning:
> 
> Cong thanks for finding and tracking this.  I was clearly asleep at the
> switch when I was testing my fix to the nfs client code :(
> 
> I have applied this patch and will push it to Linus after it has a
> little bit to sit in linux-next.

	Why does that code wank with one-by-one remove_proc_entry(), BTW?
remove_proc_subtree("nfsfs", net->proc_net) will take care of the whole pile
just fine, TYVM...  While we are it, there's no need to keep ->proc_nfsfs
at all - just have it in a local variable in nfs_fs_proc_net_init().
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