linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/params.c: print failure information instead of 'KOBJ_ADD' to user space, when sysfs_create

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:23:30 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Chen Gang F T <chen.gang.flying.transformer@...il.com>
Cc:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>, khali@...ux-fr.org,
	David.Woodhouse@...el.com,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/params.c: print failure information instead of 'KOBJ_ADD' to user space, when sysfs_create_file() fails.

Chen Gang F T <chen.gang.flying.transformer@...il.com> writes:
> On 07/09/2013 04:07 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com> writes:
>>> When sysfs_create_file() fails, recommend to print the related failure
>>> information. And it is useless to still 'KOBJ_ADD' to user space.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
>> 
>> sysfs_create_file() should not fail during boot, should it?
>> 
>
> Hmm..., please reference locate_module_kobject() in "kernel/params.c",
> which is an '__init' function, and also call sysfs_create_file(), it
> processes the related error.
>
> So I recommend to get the check too in version_sysfs_builtin().

It still can't fail.  sysfs_create_file() can fail due to OOM (not at
boot) or name duplication (not here).

You can BUG_ON() if you want.

And feel free to fix locate_module_kobject() in a separate patch.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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