linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/20] sysfs: Handle the general case of removing of directories with subdirectories

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Date:	Sat, 23 May 2009 22:46:27 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] sysfs: Handle the general case of removing of 
	directories with subdirectories

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 22:09, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> writes:
>> What's the problem in /sys/dev/? There are just a bunch of symlinks,
>> one for every device with a dev_t, and all in flat directories, and no
>> directory to remove.
>
> device_shutdown called during reboot removes /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char.
> The current sysfs_remove_dir (because it empties directories)
> removes all of those symlinks.
>
> The problem is that it is the device objects for each individual
> device that owns those symlinks, and normally removes those symlinks.
>
> Which means that in theory we could have double deletion going on.
>
> In practice today it doesn't matter because this is at reboot.
>
> And as far as that goes it is wrong to remove anything from sysfs during
> device_shutdown so the fix is just to not call kobject_put there.

Yes, that's just a bug. These directories should never be removed.

Thanks,
Kay
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