Hi Rob,
I have used an other hardware to check the patch. I hope it doesn’t matter. I added few lines at the untitest.c. All existing unittest use an attached sysfs, therefore the bug isn't detectable.
Best regards
Andre Kalb
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:42 PM Andre Kalb <Andre.Kalb@xxxxxx> wrote:
> From 1e86e351efa1a7cea31d157bafb0ae40b856cdcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> 2001
> From: Andre Kalb <Andre.Kalb@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:42:48 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Added new unittest
>
> ---
> drivers/of/unittest.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/unittest.c b/drivers/of/unittest.c index
> 2a547ca3d443..17f6cacb4fae 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/unittest.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/unittest.c
> @@ -923,6 +923,24 @@ static int __init unittest_data_add(void)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> + {
> + struct property *prop;
> +
> + prop = kzalloc(sizeof(*prop), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!prop) {
> + unittest(0, "kzalloc() failed\n");
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + np = of_find_node_with_property(unittest_data_node, "prop-
> update");
> + unittest(np, "find prop-update");
> +
> + prop->name = "prop-update";
> + prop->value = "new-property-data";
> + prop->length = strlen(prop->value) + 1;
> + unittest(of_update_property(np, prop) == 0, "Update a existing
> property failed\n");
> + }
> +
> if (!of_root) {
> of_root = unittest_data_node;
> for_each_of_allnodes(np)
> --
> 2.16.4
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1481 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x9c/0xa4
kernfs: can not remove '(null)', no directory
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.18.7 #3
Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Ultralite (Device Tree)
[<c010f338>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010cefc>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c010cefc>] (show_stack) from [<c0122004>] (__warn+0xe0/0xf8)
[<c0122004>] (__warn) from [<c0122060>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x68)
[<c0122060>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c02c6540>] (kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x9c/0xa4)
[<c02c6540>] (kernfs_remove_by_name_ns) from [<c055a704>] (__of_update_property_sysfs+0x38/0x50)
[<c055a704>] (__of_update_property_sysfs) from [<c0557b94>] (of_update_property+0xc0/0x104)
[<c0557b94>] (of_update_property) from [<c09521bc>] (of_unittest+0x1b8/0x28d4)
[<c09521bc>] (of_unittest) from [<c0102d88>] (do_one_initcall+0x40/0x218)
[<c0102d88>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c090101c>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x24c/0x2e4)
[<c090101c>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c06a1f6c>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x110)
[<c06a1f6c>] (kernel_init) from [<c01010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
Exception stack(0xcc099fb0 to 0xcc099ff8)
9fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
9fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
9fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
---[ end trace 4522f69e0760e4d5 ]---
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Rob Herring [mailto:robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2018 15:47
> An: Andre Kalb
> Cc: Frank Rowand; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: [PATCH v2] of: __of_update_property_sysfs only call
> __of_sysfs_remove_bin_file if of_node_is_attached
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:51 AM Andre Kalb <Andre.Kalb@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Frank Rowand [mailto:frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Gesendet: Freitag, 7. September 2018 22:01
> > > An: Andre Kalb; robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > linux- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Betreff: Re: [PATCH v2] of: __of_update_property_sysfs only call
> > > __of_sysfs_remove_bin_file if of_node_is_attached
> > >
> > > Hi Andred,
> > >
> > > On 09/04/18 08:51, Andre Kalb wrote:
> > > > To prevent warning "kernfs: can not remove '(null)', no directory"
> > > > if an overlay
> > > isn't applied to the active devicetree.
> > > >
> > > > Using of_remove_property and then of_add_property doesn't show the
> > > warning.
>
> [...]
>
> > > What is the calling path that results in the warning?
> > >
> > > -Frank
> >
> > There is the callstack of the warning.
> >
> > [ 10.782830] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [ 10.830357] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 170 at /linux-4.x/fs/kernfs/dir.c:1276
> kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x30/0x80()
> > [ 10.928997] kernfs: can not remove '(null)', no directory
> > [ 10.993107] Modules linked in: module_capemgr(+)
> > [ 11.045750] CPU: 0 PID: 170 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.4.143-
> 00158-g8e5ca65ec7ee-dirty #114
>
> 158 patches on top of an almost 3 year old kernel...
>
> > [ 12.011373] [<bf0000e4>] (module_capemgr_slot_scan [module_capemgr])
> from [<bf0007bc>] (module_capemgr_probe+0x3c/0x58 [module_capemgr])
>
> And a driver that's not upstream.
>
> Not saying the fix isn't valid, but please reproduce on recent mainline. Add a
> unittest if you have to.
>
> Rob
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