On Sat, Apr 02, 2022, Oliver Upton wrote:
> In all likelihood, a debugfs directory name collision is the result of a
> userspace bug. If userspace closes the VM fd without releasing all
> references to said VM then the debugfs directory is never cleaned.
>
> Even a ratelimited print statement can fill up dmesg, making it
> particularly annoying for the person debugging what exactly went wrong.
> Furthermore, a userspace that wants to be a nuisance could clog up the
> logs by deliberately holding a VM reference after closing the VM fd.
>
> Dial back logging to print at most once, given that userspace is most
> likely to blame. Leave the statement in place for the small chance that
> KVM actually got it wrong.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 85cd39af14f4 ("KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories")
I don't think this warrants Cc: stable@, the whole point of ratelimiting printk is
to guard against this sort of thing. If a ratelimited printk can bring down the
kernel and/or logging infrastructure, then the kernel is misconfigured for the
environment.
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 69c318fdff61..38b30bd60f34 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static int kvm_create_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm, int fd)
> mutex_lock(&kvm_debugfs_lock);
> dent = debugfs_lookup(dir_name, kvm_debugfs_dir);
> if (dent) {
> - pr_warn_ratelimited("KVM: debugfs: duplicate directory %s\n", dir_name);
> + pr_warn_once("KVM: debugfs: duplicate directory %s\n", dir_name);
I don't see how printing once is going to be usefull for a human debugger. If we
want to get rid of the ratelimited print, why not purge it entirely?
