On Wed 25-10-17 23:23:18, weiping zhang wrote: > we should make sure parents directory exist, and then create dir or > files under that. > > Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> OK, this looks reasonable to me but instead of instead of just leaving debugfs in half-initialized state, we should rather properly tear it down, return error from bdi_debug_register() and handle it in bdi_register_va()... hONZA > --- > mm/backing-dev.c | 8 +++++--- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c > index 74b52dfd5852..81f4a86ebbed 100644 > --- a/mm/backing-dev.c > +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c > @@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ static const struct file_operations bdi_debug_stats_fops = { > > static void bdi_debug_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *name) > { > - bdi->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, bdi_debug_root); > - bdi->debug_stats = debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, bdi->debug_dir, > - bdi, &bdi_debug_stats_fops); > + if (bdi_debug_root) > + bdi->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, bdi_debug_root); > + if (bdi->debug_dir) > + bdi->debug_stats = debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, > + bdi->debug_dir, bdi, &bdi_debug_stats_fops); > } > > static void bdi_debug_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) > -- > 2.14.2 > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>