This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled regulator: core: Avoid debugfs: Directory ... already present! error to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: regulator-core-avoid-debugfs-directory-.-already-pre.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ce25a6db6fc3fd68671dc7db408bd5c2c3befd22 Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 22 19:32:50 2021 +0100 regulator: core: Avoid debugfs: Directory ... already present! error [ Upstream commit dbe954d8f1635f949a1d9a5d6e6fb749ae022b47 ] Sometimes regulator_get() gets called twice for the same supply on the same device. This may happen e.g. when a framework / library is used which uses the regulator; and the driver itself also needs to enable the regulator in some cases where the framework will not enable it. Commit ff268b56ce8c ("regulator: core: Don't spew backtraces on duplicate sysfs") already takes care of the backtrace which would trigger when creating a duplicate consumer symlink under /sys/class/regulator/regulator.%d in this scenario. Commit c33d442328f5 ("debugfs: make error message a bit more verbose") causes a new error to get logged in this scenario: [ 26.938425] debugfs: Directory 'wm5102-codec-MICVDD' with parent 'spi-WM510204:00-MICVDD' already present! There is no _nowarn variant of debugfs_create_dir(), but we can detect and avoid this problem by checking the return value of the earlier sysfs_create_link_nowarn() call. Add a check for the earlier sysfs_create_link_nowarn() failing with -EEXIST and skip the debugfs_create_dir() call in that case, avoiding this error getting logged. Fixes: c33d442328f5 ("debugfs: make error message a bit more verbose") Cc: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122183250.370571-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c index 67a768fe5b2a3..2e6c6af9d1c3a 100644 --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c @@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ static struct regulator *create_regulator(struct regulator_dev *rdev, const char *supply_name) { struct regulator *regulator; - int err; + int err = 0; if (dev) { char buf[REG_STR_SIZE]; @@ -1663,8 +1663,8 @@ static struct regulator *create_regulator(struct regulator_dev *rdev, } } - regulator->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(supply_name, - rdev->debugfs); + if (err != -EEXIST) + regulator->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(supply_name, rdev->debugfs); if (!regulator->debugfs) { rdev_dbg(rdev, "Failed to create debugfs directory\n"); } else {