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>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h
index c57d8ea0716c..59a7889e15db 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/debug.h
@@ -60,17 +60,17 @@ struct rpc_xprt;
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG)
 void		rpc_register_sysctl(void);
 void		rpc_unregister_sysctl(void);
-int		sunrpc_debugfs_init(void);
+void		sunrpc_debugfs_init(void);
 void		sunrpc_debugfs_exit(void);
-int		rpc_clnt_debugfs_register(struct rpc_clnt *);
+void		rpc_clnt_debugfs_register(struct rpc_clnt *);
 void		rpc_clnt_debugfs_unregister(struct rpc_clnt *);
-int		rpc_xprt_debugfs_register(struct rpc_xprt *);
+void		rpc_xprt_debugfs_register(struct rpc_xprt *);
 void		rpc_xprt_debugfs_unregister(struct rpc_xprt *);
 #else
-static inline int
+static inline void
 sunrpc_debugfs_init(void)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return;
 }
 
 static inline void
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ sunrpc_debugfs_exit(void)
 	return;
 }
 
-static inline int
+static inline void
 rpc_clnt_debugfs_register(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return;
 }
 
 static inline void
@@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ rpc_clnt_debugfs_unregister(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
 	return;
 }
 
-static inline int
+static inline void
 rpc_xprt_debugfs_register(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return;
 }
 
 static inline void