linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracefs: Remove unnecessary debug

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Message-ID: <20200622091809.GA3396796@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:18:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@...y.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracefs: Remove unnecessary debug_fs checks.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:30:18AM +0200, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> This is a preparation for debugfs restricted mode.
> We don't need debugfs to trace, the removed check stop tracefs to work
> if debugfs is not initialised. We instead tries to automount within
> debugfs and relay on it's handling. The code path is to create a
> backward compatibility from when tracefs was part of debugfs, it is now
> standalone and does not need debugfs. When debugfs is in restricted
> it is compiled in but not active and return EPERM to clients and
> tracefs wont work if it assumes it is active it is compiled in
> kernel.

I'm sorry, but I can't parse this changelog text at all.  Why exactly
are you doing this?

> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@...y.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index ec44b0e2a19c..34ed82364edb 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -8946,9 +8946,7 @@ struct dentry *tracing_init_dentry(void)
>  	if (tr->dir)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -	if (WARN_ON(!tracefs_initialized()) ||
> -		(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) &&
> -		 WARN_ON(!debugfs_initialized())))
> +	if (WARN_ON(!tracefs_initialized()))
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>  

This change makes sense to me anyway, so:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>