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Message-ID: <c7dbaa5e-f5ae-5dc5-4063-b8099a3058e0@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 12:14:22 +0100
From: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To: Joan Bruguera Micó <joanbrugueram@...il.com>,
zhengqi.arch@...edance.com,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: shrinkers: fix race condition on debugfs cleanup
On 21/05/2023 14:57, Joan Bruguera Micó wrote:
> On 2023/5/3 13:37, Qi Zheng wrote:
>>> +void shrinker_debugfs_remove(struct dentry *debugfs_entry, int debugfs_id)
>>> +{
>>
>> It would be better to add a check:
>>
>> if (!debugfs_entry)
>> return;
>>
>>> + debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_entry);
>>> + ida_free(&shrinker_debugfs_ida, debugfs_id);
>>> +}
>
> As a practical matter, both `debugfs_remove_recursive(NULL)` and
> `ida_free(_, -1);` are documented as no-ops, see:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/debugfs/inode.c?id=0dd2a6fb1e34d6dcb96806bc6b111388ad324722#n748
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc82bbf4dede758007763867d0282353c06d1121
>
> Sorry for the late reply (the patch already reached the mainline tree).
Note that commit 69cb69ea5542 ("ida: Remove assertions that an ID was
allocated") currently in linux-next makes ida_free(..., -1) illegal.
I see a crash on boot on my test platform (Firefly-RK3288) with
linux-next because of this. Qi's suggested change fixes this.
I'm not sure whether Matthew's change removing the ((int)id < 0) check
was intentional or not. Reinstating that check would also fix the crash.
Steve
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