linux-kernel - Re: WARNING in kernfs_create_dir

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jul 2019 07:22:06 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+38f5d5cf7ae88c46b11a@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com" <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING in kernfs_create_dir_ns

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:23:35AM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > I don't think this is the correct fix.  It's being called with kobj
> > whose parent's sysfs node is dangling.  It gotta be fixed from the
> > caller side.
> >
> Make sense?
> 
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c

No, I meant that the problem likely is in the driver which is calling
into the generic layer with a dead parent.  We shouldn't be working
around that from generic layer.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun