On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:47:56AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > So this file was open when debugfs_remove() was called? Seems likely. > Any chance you can bisect? We just fixed some issues here in > 952c3fce297f ("debugfs: fix wait/cancellation handling during remove") > that I thought should have handled this. If you revert that commit, > does things work again? And/or what about commit 8c88a474357e > ("debugfs: add API to allow debugfs operations cancellation")? Maybe we > need to go back to not having completions at all in the debugfs remove > path and just live with waiting for the files to be removed before > continuing (which should at the least, resolve the issue you see here, > while slowing things down a bit.) No, this doesn't occur often enough to bisect, unfortunately. All my tests bang on sysfs/debugfs in the background to torture test those codepaths, and I've seen 2 occurrences out of thousands of test runs - it's rare.