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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 6/9] debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:38:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > Great, change that and limit the size of the string that can be written
> > and it looks good to me, thanks for adding this.
>
> Here goes..

Great, except one tiny thing:

> + * This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds. This
> + * pointer must be passed to the debugfs_remove() function when the file is
> + * to be removed (no automatic cleanup happens if your module is unloaded,
> + * you are responsible here.) If an error occurs, ERR_PTR(-ERROR) will be
> + * returned.
> + *
> + * NOTE: when writing is enabled it will replace the string, string lifetime is
> + * assumed to be RCU managed.
> + *
> + * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) will
> + * be returned.

Nothing is returned anymore so the top and bottom paragraphs here no
longer apply.

Fix that up and feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,

greg k-h

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