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Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that KVM was able to instantiate a debugfs directory for a particular VM. To that end, KVM shouldn't even attempt to create new debugfs files in this case. If the specified parent dentry is NULL, debugfs_create_file() will instantiate files at the root of debugfs. For arm64, it is possible to create the vgic-state file outside of a VM directory, the file is not cleaned up when a VM is destroyed. Nonetheless, the corresponding struct kvm is freed when the VM is destroyed. Nip the problem in the bud for all possible errant debugfs file creations by initializing kvm->debugfs_dentry to -ENOENT. In so doing, debugfs_create_file() will fail instead of creating the file in the root directory. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 929f45e32499 ("kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions") Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220406235615.1447180-2-oupton@google.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.