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

From: Lukas Czerner
Date: Tue Oct 11 2011 - 05:27:21 EST


On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> 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);

Hi Ted,

I am not sure that this is very good. As I said several patch versions
back, it would be nice to print a warning in case that proc_mkdir()
fails even though procfs is compiled in. Otherwise this might hide
possible bugs.

Thanks!
-Lukas

>
> 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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