From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse•de>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk•pl>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips•org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy•org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>,
netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:34:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100719133451.0862ca62.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100708230601.GB17002@kroah.com>
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:06:01 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah•com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah•com> writes:
> >
> > > With this patch, how does the existing code fail as the drivers aren't
> > > fixed up?
> > >
> > > I like this change, just worried it will cause problems if it gets into
> > > .35, without your RFC patch. Will it?
> >
> > It don't expect this patch to be worse than where we are current at.
> > Network devices are renamed, and come and go enough that both the
> > mac80211_hwsim and the bnep driver are currently unusable with a
> > failure only the rename and remove.
> >
> > This patch simply moves the failure into creation where we are a little more
> > prepared to deal with problems, and this patch is limited to mac80211_hwsim,
> > bnep, and any hypothetically undiscovered other network devices that
> > have the same problem.
> >
> > mac80211_hwsim with just this patch becomes somewhat usable as it's primary
> > network device gets registered and the module can be loaded and unloaded. It
> > just doesn't create the wlan0 and wlan1 interfaces for the wifi interfaces.
>
> Fair enough, I've commited it now, let's see what happens :)
geethanks!
On the FC6 test box I have no networking.
akpm2:/usr/src/25> grep E1000 .config
CONFIG_E1000=y
CONFIG_E1000E=y
calling e1000_init_module+0x0/0x84 @ 1
e1000: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k6-NAPI
e1000: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
initcall e1000_init_module+0x0/0x84 returned 0 after 252 usecs
calling e1000_init_module+0x0/0x3e @ 1
e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.2.7-k2
e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999 - 2010 Intel Corporation.
e1000e 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
e1000e 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
e1000e 0000:05:00.0: irq 74 for MSI/MSI-X
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:82 sysfs_do_create_link+0x140/0x19a()
sysfs: symlink across ns_types 0000:05:00.0/net:eth0 -> net/eth0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-rc5 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81111b21>] ? sysfs_do_create_link+0x140/0x19a
[<ffffffff81036283>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0x97
[<ffffffff8103631c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x69/0x6b
[<ffffffff81055ffb>] ? debug_mutex_free_waiter+0x4c/0x50
[<ffffffff811107f3>] ? sysfs_addrm_start+0x25/0x27
[<ffffffff811107f3>] ? sysfs_addrm_start+0x25/0x27
[<ffffffff81111b21>] sysfs_do_create_link+0x140/0x19a
[<ffffffff810595b2>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[<ffffffff81111b96>] sysfs_create_link+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8121451d>] device_add+0x299/0x5b2
[<ffffffff812195f4>] ? device_pm_init+0x30/0x3f
[<ffffffff812edea0>] netdev_register_kobject+0x79/0x159
[<ffffffff812dfd00>] register_netdevice+0x272/0x31a
[<ffffffff812dfde2>] register_netdev+0x3a/0x48
[<ffffffff813677a8>] e1000_probe+0x956/0xb05
[<ffffffff81375267>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x23/0x28
[<ffffffff8119916c>] local_pci_probe+0x12/0x16
[<ffffffff811995bc>] pci_device_probe+0xca/0xf4
[<ffffffff8121662e>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x4a/0x70
[<ffffffff81216879>] driver_probe_device+0xa1/0x137
[<ffffffff81216968>] __driver_attach+0x59/0x7d
[<ffffffff8121690f>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x7d
[<ffffffff8121560c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x4f/0x80
[<ffffffff81216449>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x1e
[<ffffffff81216190>] bus_add_driver+0xb4/0x206
[<ffffffff81216d87>] driver_register+0x92/0xff
[<ffffffff81198cea>] __pci_register_driver+0x60/0xbd
[<ffffffff81a159c8>] ? e1000_init_module+0x0/0x3e
[<ffffffff81a15a04>] e1000_init_module+0x3c/0x3e
[<ffffffff810002cb>] do_one_initcall+0x52/0x13f
[<ffffffff819edcc6>] kernel_init+0x140/0x1c9
[<ffffffff81003814>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff81375cfc>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff819edb86>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1c9
[<ffffffff81003810>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
---[ end trace 948c9041178f15c8 ]---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-19 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-16257-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
[not found] ` <20100621150826.762ac9f2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-21 22:22 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 16257] New: sysfs changes break hwsim and bnep drivers Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-21 22:29 ` Greg KH
2010-06-21 22:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-21 23:10 ` Greg KH
2010-06-22 0:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-22 3:56 ` Greg KH
2010-07-08 16:31 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-08 16:37 ` [RFC][PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: No parent is better than an illegimate one Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-12 6:46 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-12 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-12 14:29 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-08 21:19 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove Greg KH
2010-07-08 22:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-08 23:06 ` Greg KH
2010-07-19 20:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-07-20 20:13 ` Greg KH
2010-07-21 5:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] Support untagged symlinks to tagged directories Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-21 5:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: sysfs_delete_link handle symlinks from untagged " Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-21 5:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: allow creating " Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-21 19:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] Support untagged symlinks " Greg KH
2010-07-21 20:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-21 20:36 ` Greg KH
2010-07-22 9:16 ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Fix bluetooth network device rename regression Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-22 13:38 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-22 14:10 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22 15:30 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-22 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-22 17:44 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-22 18:20 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22 18:28 ` Greg KH
2010-07-22 18:36 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22 18:54 ` Greg KH
2010-07-23 1:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-26 18:09 ` Greg KH
2010-07-27 9:10 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-27 13:49 ` Greg KH
2010-07-27 13:59 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-27 15:09 ` Greg KH
2010-07-27 15:32 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-27 18:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-27 18:24 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-27 18:36 ` Greg KH
2010-07-27 18:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-27 18:54 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-27 20:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-28 4:41 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-28 5:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-28 5:26 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-28 7:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-25 5:43 ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Always create class directories for classses that support namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-26 18:07 ` Greg KH
2010-07-22 23:03 ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Fix bluetooth network device rename regression Kay Sievers
2010-07-10 22:30 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-07-22 9:54 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22 10:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-22 10:10 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22 10:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-22 10:41 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22 11:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-22 11:30 ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-08 16:55 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 16257] New: sysfs changes break hwsim and bnep drivers Eric W. Biederman
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