linux/include
Jeff Layton 3f94009816 sunrpc: make debugfs file creation failure non-fatal
v2: gracefully handle the case where some dentry pointers end up NULL
    and be more dilligent about zeroing out dentry pointers

We currently have a problem that SELinux policy is being enforced when
creating debugfs files. If a debugfs file is created as a side effect of
doing some syscall, then that creation can fail if the SELinux policy
for that process prevents it.

This seems wrong. We don't do that for files under /proc, for instance,
so Bruce has proposed a patch to fix that.

While discussing that patch however, Greg K.H. stated:

    "No kernel code should care / fail if a debugfs function fails, so
     please fix up the sunrpc code first."

This patch converts all of the sunrpc debugfs setup code to be void
return functins, and the callers to not look for errors from those
functions.

This should allow rpc_clnt and rpc_xprt creation to work, even if the
kernel fails to create debugfs files for some reason.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2015-04-23 14:42:27 -04:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2015-02-19 11:28:36 -08:00
asm-generic OK, this has the big virtio 1.0 implementation, as specified by OASIS. 2015-02-18 09:24:01 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
drm drm/ttm: device address space != CPU address space 2015-03-05 09:04:39 +10:00
dt-bindings The clock framework changes for 3.20 contain the usual driver additions, 2015-02-21 12:30:30 -08:00
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linux sunrpc: make debugfs file creation failure non-fatal 2015-04-23 14:42:27 -04:00
math-emu
media [media] tea575x: split and export functions 2015-01-27 10:13:50 -02:00
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net caif: fix a signedness bug in cfpkt_iterate() 2015-02-20 17:35:14 -05:00
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ras
rdma Revert "IB/core: Add support for extended query device caps" 2015-02-06 00:54:33 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-02-12 14:13:23 -08:00
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sound ALSA: pcm: allow for trigger_tstamp snapshot in .trigger 2015-02-09 16:01:53 +01:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2015-02-21 13:21:19 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-02-17 16:12:34 -08:00
uapi TTY/Serial fixes for 4.0-rc3 2015-03-08 12:25:40 -07:00
video Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-02-16 15:48:00 -08:00
xen x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted 2015-02-23 16:30:24 +00:00
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