linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] printk: Userspace format enumeration support

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Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:12:57 +0000
From:   Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] printk: Userspace format enumeration support

Greg Kroah-Hartman writes:
>On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:30:31AM +0000, Chris Down wrote:
>> +	ps->file = debugfs_create_file(pi_get_module_name(mod), 0444, dfs_index,
>> +				       ps, &dfs_index_fops);
>> +
>> +	if (IS_ERR(ps->file)) {
>> +		pi_sec_remove(mod);
>> +		return;
>> +	}
>
>No need to check this and try to clean up if there is a problem, just
>save the pointer off and call debugfs_remove() when you want to clean
>up.

Petr, what are your thoughts on this, since you requested the cleanup on 
debugfs failure? :-)

>Or better yet, no need to save anything, you can always look it up when
>you want to remove it, that will save you one pointer per module.

That's a good point, and with that maybe we can even do away with the pi_sec 
entirely then since that only leaves start/end pointers which we can calculate 
on demand from existing data.