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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-08-24 16:11:54 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-16 09:24:41 -0700
commitae87221d3ce49d9de1e43756da834fd0bf05a2ad (patch)
treef96792656b00e95c307f3f37369c98a85ce38207
parente94320939f44e0cbaccc3f259a5778abced4949c (diff)
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sysfs: crash debugging
Print the name of the last-accessed sysfs file when we oops, to help track down oopses which occur in sysfs store/read handlers. Because these oopses tend to not leave any trace of the offending code in the stack traces. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/file.c13
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysfs.h6
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
index 201ee35..1a78180 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
+#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
@@ -343,6 +344,7 @@ int __kprobes __die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err)
printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC");
#endif
printk("\n");
+ sysfs_printk_last_file();
if (notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err,
current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
return 1;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 086cc81..96a5db7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
+#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
@@ -489,6 +490,7 @@ int __kprobes __die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err)
printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC");
#endif
printk("\n");
+ sysfs_printk_last_file();
if (notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err,
current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
return 1;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index c9e4e50..ce8339c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -19,10 +19,18 @@
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "sysfs.h"
+/* used in crash dumps to help with debugging */
+static char last_sysfs_file[PATH_MAX];
+void sysfs_printk_last_file(void)
+{
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "last sysfs file: %s\n", last_sysfs_file);
+}
+
/*
* There's one sysfs_buffer for each open file and one
* sysfs_open_dirent for each sysfs_dirent with one or more open
@@ -328,6 +336,11 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
struct sysfs_buffer *buffer;
struct sysfs_ops *ops;
int error = -EACCES;
+ char *p;
+
+ p = d_path(&file->f_path, last_sysfs_file, sizeof(last_sysfs_file));
+ if (p)
+ memmove(last_sysfs_file, p, strlen(p) + 1);
/* need attr_sd for attr and ops, its parent for kobj */
if (!sysfs_get_active_two(attr_sd))
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 37fa241..8ec406a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, char *dir, char *attr);
+void sysfs_printk_last_file(void);
+
extern int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
#else /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
@@ -231,6 +233,10 @@ static inline int __must_check sysfs_init(void)
return 0;
}
+static inline void sysfs_printk_last_file(void)
+{
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
#endif /* _SYSFS_H_ */