Re: [PATCH v4] [SIGNED-OFF] ext4: don't work without procfs

From: Ted Ts'o
Date: Sat Oct 08 2011 - 16:27:17 EST


On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:54:14PM +0200, Fabrice Jouhaud wrote:
> Regression from commit dd68314ccf3fb918c1fb6471817edbc60ece4b52
> The problem come from the test of the return value of proc_mkdir
> that is always false without procfs and abort the init of ext4.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Jouhaud <yargil@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, here's the patch that I ultimately checked in.

commit d44651d0f922b7aaeddd9fc04f2f5700a65983dd
Author: Fabrice Jouhaud <yargil@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Oct 8 16:26:03 2011 -0400

ext4: fix ext4 so it works without CONFIG_PROC_FS

This fixes a bug which was introduced in dd68314ccf3fb. The problem
came from the test of the return value of proc_mkdir which is always
false without procfs, and this would initialization of ext4.

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Jouhaud <yargil@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 42f76c6..dcc4605 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3540,10 +3540,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
goto failed_mount;
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
if (ext4_proc_root)
sbi->s_proc = proc_mkdir(sb->s_id, ext4_proc_root);
-#endif

bgl_lock_init(sbi->s_blockgroup_lock);

@@ -5070,13 +5068,11 @@ static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
return err;
err = ext4_init_system_zone();
if (err)
- goto out7;
+ goto out6;
ext4_kset = kset_create_and_add("ext4", NULL, fs_kobj);
if (!ext4_kset)
- goto out6;
- ext4_proc_root = proc_mkdir("fs/ext4", NULL);
- if (!ext4_proc_root)
goto out5;
+ ext4_proc_root = proc_mkdir("fs/ext4", NULL);

err = ext4_init_feat_adverts();
if (err)
@@ -5112,12 +5108,12 @@ out2:
out3:
ext4_exit_feat_adverts();
out4:
- remove_proc_entry("fs/ext4", NULL);
-out5:
+ if (ext4_proc_root)
+ remove_proc_entry("fs/ext4", NULL);
kset_unregister(ext4_kset);
-out6:
+out5:
ext4_exit_system_zone();
-out7:
+out6:
ext4_exit_pageio();
return err;
}
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