A problem about ntb_hw_intel create debugfs failed is triggered with the
following log given:
[ 273.112733] Intel(R) PCI-E Non-Transparent Bridge Driver 2.0
[ 273.115342] debugfs: Directory 'ntb_hw_intel' with parent '/' already present!
The reason is that intel_ntb_pci_driver_init() returns
pci_register_driver() directly without checking its return value, if
pci_register_driver() failed, it returns without destroy the newly created
debugfs, resulting the debugfs of ntb_hw_intel can never be created later.
intel_ntb_pci_driver_init()
debugfs_create_dir() # create debugfs directory
pci_register_driver()
driver_register()
bus_add_driver()
priv = kzalloc(...) # OOM happened
# return without destroy debugfs directory
Fix by removing debugfs when pci_register_driver() returns error.
Fixes: e26a5843f7f5 ("NTB: Split ntb_hw_intel and ntb_transport drivers")
Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
static int __init intel_ntb_pci_driver_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
pr_info("%s %s\n", NTB_DESC, NTB_VER);
if (debugfs_initialized())
debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(KBUILD_MODNAME, NULL);
- return pci_register_driver(&intel_ntb_pci_driver);
+ ret = pci_register_driver(&intel_ntb_pci_driver);
+ if (ret)
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_dir);
+
+ return ret;
}
module_init(intel_ntb_pci_driver_init);