This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git in the driver-core-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:08:18 +0100 Subject: debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized

Some subsystems want to add debugfs files at early boot, way before debugfs is initialized. This seems to work somehow as the vfs layer will not allow it to happen, but let's be explicit and test to ensure we are properly up and running before allowing files to be created.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael@kernel.org Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Michael Walle michael@walle.cc Reported-by: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218100818.3622317-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.or... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index bbeb563cbe78..86c7f0489620 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent) if (!(debugfs_allow & DEBUGFS_ALLOW_API)) return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);

+ if (!debugfs_initialized()) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + pr_debug("creating file '%s'\n", name);

if (IS_ERR(parent))