linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: nozomi: Return an error when failing to create the sysfs

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Message-ID: <YqHzGeRK0c4nVPc6@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:18:17 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, fseidel@...e.de,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: nozomi: Return an error when failing to create the
 sysfs

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:03:32PM +0800, Zheyu Ma wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 4:38 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 04:31:33PM +0800, Zheyu Ma wrote:
> > > The driver does not handle the error of the creation of sysfs, resulting
> > > in duplicate file names being created.
> > >
> > > The following log can reveal it:
> > >
> > > [   52.907211] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/card_type'
> >
> > How is the same file being created in a normal codepath?
> >
> > Is the same device being registered twice somehow?
> 
> In fact, I tried to load the nozomi driver twice.

How?  Modules should not be able to be in memory twice.

> In the first load, the driver failed at tty_port_register_device(),
> performed error handling and returned an error, but by this time the
> make_sysfs_files() had been executed and the sysfs had been created.
> In the second load, the make_sysfs_files() is executed again and this
> warning is returned.

Ah, ok, if you make the other changes I suggested, this will not be a
problem.

thanks,

greg k-h