[GIT PULL] blktrace fix for 2.6.31

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Aug 12 2009 - 12:51:52 EST


Hi Linus,

Just a single patch there, fixing a critical issue with blktrace. Please
pull.

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus

Alan D. Brunelle (1):
Remove double removal of blktrace directory

kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 12 +-----------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 1090b0a..7a34cb5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ static void blk_trace_free(struct blk_trace *bt)
{
debugfs_remove(bt->msg_file);
debugfs_remove(bt->dropped_file);
- debugfs_remove(bt->dir);
relay_close(bt->rchan);
+ debugfs_remove(bt->dir);
free_percpu(bt->sequence);
free_percpu(bt->msg_data);
kfree(bt);
@@ -378,18 +378,8 @@ static int blk_subbuf_start_callback(struct rchan_buf *buf, void *subbuf,

static int blk_remove_buf_file_callback(struct dentry *dentry)
{
- struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
debugfs_remove(dentry);

- /*
- * this will fail for all but the last file, but that is ok. what we
- * care about is the top level buts->name directory going away, when
- * the last trace file is gone. Then we don't have to rmdir() that
- * manually on trace stop, so it nicely solves the issue with
- * force killing of running traces.
- */
-
- debugfs_remove(parent);
return 0;
}


--
Jens Axboe

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