From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I have looked and I have not found a single legitimate case today where we remove sysfs directories with anything in them. The only case I have found to date was a bug. It was a problem of ownership. The files in the directory where not owned by the directory itself. Leaving open the potential for double deletion of the directory contents. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 24 ++++-------------------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index b3058f5..6b3e038 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -617,30 +617,14 @@ const struct inode_operations sysfs_dir_inode_operations = { .permission = sysfs_permission, }; -static struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_one(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd) -{ - struct sysfs_dirent *sd = dir_sd; - mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex); - while ((sysfs_type(sd) == SYSFS_DIR) && sd->s_dir.children) - sd = sd->s_dir.children; - if (sd != dir_sd) - sysfs_get(sd); - else - sd = NULL; - mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex); - return sd; -} - static void remove_dir(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd) { - struct sysfs_dirent *sd; - pr_debug("sysfs %s: removing dir\n", dir_sd->s_name); - while ((sd = sysfs_get_one(dir_sd))) { - sysfs_remove_one(sd); - sysfs_put(sd); - } + WARN(dir_sd->s_dir.children, + KERN_WARNING "sysfs: removing non-empty dir: %s\n", + dir_sd->s_name); + sysfs_remove_one(dir_sd); } -- 1.6.3.1.54.g99dd.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html