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

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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 16:54:57 -0700
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dan Aloni <dan@...nelim.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nfs: fix kernel warning when removing proc entry

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 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().

Since nobody sent me an updated version with the remove_proc_subtree
fix, I went ahead and edited the patch myself (see attachment). Cong,
please let me know if you disagree with that change, otherwise, that
will be the final patch sent upstream and Cc: stable # 3.4+.

I'll schedule cleanup patches to make the same changes to the original
nfs_fs_proc_exit() and nfs_fs_proc_init() and to remove (struct
nfs_net)->proc_nfsfs for merging in 3.18.

-- 
Trond Myklebust

Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData

trond.myklebust@...marydata.com

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