[PATCH RESEND AGAIN] clk: clean up everything on debugfs error
Mike Turquette
mturquette at linaro.org
Wed Nov 27 13:26:03 EST 2013
Quoting Alex Elder (2013-11-27 07:39:49)
> [Maybe the third time will be the charm. -Alex]
>
> If CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_DEBUG is defined, clk_debug_create_one() is
> called to populate a debugfs directory with a few entries that are
> common for all clock types.
>
> If an error happens after creating the first one debugfs_remove() is
> called on the clock's directory. The problem with this is that no
> cleanup is done on the debugfs files already created in that
> directory, so the directory never actually gets removed. This
> problem is silently ignored.
>
> Fix this by calling debugfs_remove_recursive() instead. Reset the
> clk->dentry field to null afterward, to ensure it can't be mistaken
> as a valid pointer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
Thanks! Taken into clk-next.
Regards,
Mike
> ---
> drivers/clk/clk.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index 2cf2ea6..77fcd06 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ static int clk_debug_create_one(struct clk *clk,
> struct dentry *pdentry)
> goto out;
>
> err_out:
> - debugfs_remove(clk->dentry);
> + debugfs_remove_recursive(clk->dentry);
> + clk->dentry = NULL;
> out:
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
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