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Message-id: <20140108183258.01c494e4@samsung.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:32:58 -0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>
To: Frank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@...glemail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs warnings since kernel 3.13-rc1:
"WARNING: ... at fs/sysfs/group.c:214 sysfs_remove_group"
Em Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:01:38 +0100
Frank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@...glemail.com> escreveu:
> Am 07.01.2014 18:59, schrieb Tejun Heo:
> > Hello,
> >
> > cc'ing Mauro and quoting whole body for him.
> >
> > So, ummm, the sysfs rule was that any group below a device should be
> > removed before the device itself is removed; however, nothing really
> > checked whether this actually was the case. We didn't care whether
> > the order was reversed and if somebody forgot to remove the group
> > afterwards, we just leaked it. After this commit, sysfs now whines if
> > the order is reversed, so the warning.
> >
> > While this should probably be fixed from the v4l side, I'm really
> > skeptical we're gaining anything by requiring users to explicitly
> > remove groups during device removal. In most cases, this is a
> > completely unnecessary task. Maybe we should just hunt down all
> > remove_group calls and remove all the unnecessary ones.
> >
> > Thanks.
> What about the USB mass storage devices ?
> Is it just a coincidence that this happens with two completely different
> types of USB devices ?
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Frank Schäfer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> since
> >>
> >> commit bcdde7e221a8750f9b62b6d0bd31b72ea4ad9309
> >> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> >> Date: Wed Sep 18 17:15:37 2013 -0400
> >>
> >> sysfs: make __sysfs_remove_dir() recursive
> >>
> >> Currently, sysfs directory removal is inconsistent in that it would
> >> remove any files directly under it but wouldn't recurse into
> >> directories. Thanks to group subdirectories, this doesn't even match
> >> with kobject boundaries. sysfs is in the process of being separated
> >> out so that it can be used by multiple subsystems and we want to have
> >> a consistent behavior - either removal of a sysfs_dirent should remove
> >> every descendant entries or none instead of something inbetween.
> >>
> >> This patch implements proper recursive removal in
> >> __sysfs_remove_dir(). The function now walks its subtree in a
> >> post-order walk to remove all descendants.
> >>
> >> This is a behavior change but kobject / driver layer, which currently
> >> is the only consumer, has already been updated to handle duplicate
> >> removal attempts, so nothing should be broken after this change.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm getting several sysfs related warnings when closing disconnected
> >> em28xx USB devices:
> >>
> >> [ 447.408658] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> [ 447.408676] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2489 at fs/sysfs/group.c:214
> >> sysfs_remove_group+0xc9/0xd0()
> >> [ 447.408681] sysfs group c0a10100 not found for kobject 'vbi1'
> >> [ 447.408685] Modules linked in: em28xx_rc zl10353 em28xx_dvb dvb_core
> >> snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi tuner_xc2028 tvp5150 em28xx
> >> videobuf2_core videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops nls_iso8859_1
> >> nls_cp437 vfat fat xt_tcpudp af_packet xt_pkttype xt_LOG xt_limit
> >> ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_raw ipt_REJECT
> >> iptable_raw xt_CT iptable_filter ip6table_mangle nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
> >> nf_conntrack_broadcast nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables
> >> xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables fuse
> >> snd_hda_codec_hdmi arc4 snd_hda_codec_analog rtl8187 mac80211
> >> snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm rc_hauppauge ir_kbd_i2c
> >> snd_seq tuner_simple tuner_types cfg80211 tda9887 tda8290 tuner msp3400
> >> bttv v4l2_common videodev snd_timer snd_seq_device videobuf_dma_sg
> >> videobuf_core usb_storage btcx_risc rc_core snd tveeprom usblp rfkill
> >> forcedeth sg soundcore i2c_nforce2 shpchp eeprom_93cx6 firewire_ohci
> >> firewire_core crc_itu_t ppdev k8temp sr_mod cdrom powernow_k8 kvm_amd
> >> button asus_atk0110 floppy parport_pc parport pcspkr snd_page_alloc kvm
> >> serio_raw autofs4 radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit fan thermal
> >> processor thermal_sys scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc
> >> scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh ata_generic pata_amd pata_jmicron sata_nv
> >> [ 447.408842] CPU: 1 PID: 2489 Comm: qv4l2 Tainted: G W
> >> 3.13.0-rc7-0.1-desktop+ #76
> >> [ 447.408848] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product
> >> Name/M2N-VM DH, BIOS ASUS M2N-VM DH ACPI BIOS Revision 1503 09/16/2010
> >> [ 447.408852] 00000000 00000000 e7205e38 c077985c e7205e78 e7205e68
> >> c02401df c092bedc
> >> [ 447.408866] e7205e94 000009b9 c0935e02 000000d6 c03afe89 c03afe89
> >> 00000000 c0a10100
> >> [ 447.408876] e81a180c e7205e80 c024027e 00000009 e7205e78 c092bedc
> >> e7205e94 e7205ea8
> >> [ 447.408887] Call Trace:
> >> [ 447.408901] [<c077985c>] dump_stack+0x48/0x69
> >> [ 447.408911] [<c02401df>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xa0
> >> [ 447.408920] [<c03afe89>] ? sysfs_remove_group+0xc9/0xd0
> >> [ 447.408927] [<c03afe89>] ? sysfs_remove_group+0xc9/0xd0
> >> [ 447.408934] [<c024027e>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2e/0x30
> >> [ 447.408942] [<c03afe89>] sysfs_remove_group+0xc9/0xd0
> >> [ 447.408951] [<c059c32d>] dpm_sysfs_remove+0x2d/0x30
> >> [ 447.408959] [<c05940ac>] device_del+0x2c/0x150
> >> [ 447.408965] [<c05941ec>] device_unregister+0x1c/0x60
> >> [ 447.408972] [<c077644a>] ? printk+0x48/0x4a
> >> [ 447.408998] [<f8b576e8>] video_unregister_device+0x38/0x40 [videodev]
> >> [ 447.409092] [<f9a028a4>] em28xx_release_analog_resources+0xc4/0x100
> >> [em28xx]
> >> [ 447.409122] [<f9a0572b>] em28xx_release_resources+0xb/0x70 [em28xx]
With the patches that split em28xx-v4l from the main em28xx, this logic
changed, as em28xx_release_analog_resources() now have another name and
don't free em28xx dev anymore.
Could you please test again after that patches?
Regards,
Mauro
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