Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"

This reverts commit d92d2e6bd7.

Tejun writes:
        I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series?
        get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential
        to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is
        something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work
        with the remove_self() like everybody else.  IOW, I think the
        first posting was correct.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2014-01-13 14:49:01 -08:00
parent 87da149343
commit 683bb2761f

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@ -54,38 +54,6 @@ static const struct kernfs_ops *kernfs_ops(struct kernfs_node *kn)
return kn->attr.ops;
}
/*
* As kernfs_seq_stop() is also called after kernfs_seq_start() or
* kernfs_seq_next() failure, it needs to distinguish whether it's stopping
* a seq_file iteration which is fully initialized with an active reference
* or an aborted kernfs_seq_start() due to get_active failure. The
* position pointer is the only context for each seq_file iteration and
* thus the stop condition should be encoded in it. As the return value is
* directly visible to userland, ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) is the only acceptable
* choice to indicate get_active failure.
*
* Unfortunately, this is complicated due to the optional custom seq_file
* operations which may return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) too. kernfs_seq_stop()
* can't distinguish whether ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) is from get_active failure or
* custom seq_file operations and thus can't decide whether put_active
* should be performed or not only on ERR_PTR(-ENODEV).
*
* This is worked around by factoring out the custom seq_stop() and
* put_active part into kernfs_seq_stop_active(), skipping it from
* kernfs_seq_stop() if ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) while invoking it directly after
* custom seq_file operations fail with ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) - this ensures
* that kernfs_seq_stop_active() is skipped only after get_active failure.
*/
static void kernfs_seq_stop_active(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
{
struct kernfs_open_file *of = sf->private;
const struct kernfs_ops *ops = kernfs_ops(of->kn);
if (ops->seq_stop)
ops->seq_stop(sf, v);
kernfs_put_active(of->kn);
}
static void *kernfs_seq_start(struct seq_file *sf, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct kernfs_open_file *of = sf->private;
@ -101,11 +69,7 @@ static void *kernfs_seq_start(struct seq_file *sf, loff_t *ppos)
ops = kernfs_ops(of->kn);
if (ops->seq_start) {
void *next = ops->seq_start(sf, ppos);
/* see the comment above kernfs_seq_stop_active() */
if (next == ERR_PTR(-ENODEV))
kernfs_seq_stop_active(sf, next);
return next;
return ops->seq_start(sf, ppos);
} else {
/*
* The same behavior and code as single_open(). Returns
@ -121,11 +85,7 @@ static void *kernfs_seq_next(struct seq_file *sf, void *v, loff_t *ppos)
const struct kernfs_ops *ops = kernfs_ops(of->kn);
if (ops->seq_next) {
void *next = ops->seq_next(sf, v, ppos);
/* see the comment above kernfs_seq_stop_active() */
if (next == ERR_PTR(-ENODEV))
kernfs_seq_stop_active(sf, next);
return next;
return ops->seq_next(sf, v, ppos);
} else {
/*
* The same behavior and code as single_open(), always
@ -139,9 +99,12 @@ static void *kernfs_seq_next(struct seq_file *sf, void *v, loff_t *ppos)
static void kernfs_seq_stop(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
{
struct kernfs_open_file *of = sf->private;
const struct kernfs_ops *ops = kernfs_ops(of->kn);
if (v != ERR_PTR(-ENODEV))
kernfs_seq_stop_active(sf, v);
if (ops->seq_stop)
ops->seq_stop(sf, v);
kernfs_put_active(of->kn);
mutex_unlock(&of->mutex);
}