From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
To: "Younes Akhouayri via B4 Relay"
<devnull+git.younes.io@kernel.org>,
"Breno Leitao" <leitao@debian.org>,
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Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Younes Akhouayri <git@younes.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: configfs: skip unregister after failed registration
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:09:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wltn91uj.fsf@t14s.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zeyj93cw.fsf@t14s.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> writes:
> "Younes Akhouayri via B4 Relay" <devnull+git.younes.io@kernel.org>
> writes:
>
>> From: Younes Akhouayri <git@younes.io>
>>
>> Subsystem::new() calls configfs_register_subsystem() from a fallible
>> pin_chain callback. If registration fails, ChainPinInit drops the
>> already initialized Subsystem. Its PinnedDrop currently calls
>> configfs_unregister_subsystem() unconditionally.
>>
>> configfs_unregister_subsystem() requires registration to have completed
>> and immediately dereferences the subsystem dentry. Registering a
>> duplicate subsystem name returns -EEXIST before installing that dentry,
>> so the cleanup path dereferences NULL and panics the kernel.
>>
>> Track successful registration explicitly and only unregister in that
>> state. Keep mutex destruction unconditional because it is initialized
>> before registration.
>>
>> Fixes: 446cafc295bf ("rust: configfs: introduce rust support for configfs")
>> Signed-off-by: Younes Akhouayri <git@younes.io>
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
>
> Looks good to me, will pick it in a few weeks.
Actually, we do not need the `as_mut` call:
diff --git a/rust/kernel/configfs.rs b/rust/kernel/configfs.rs
index fce994e7f8b8..62fd2d458a1c 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/configfs.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/configfs.rs
@@ -176,12 +176,12 @@ pub fn new(
data <- data,
registered: false,
})
- .pin_chain(|mut this| {
+ .pin_chain(|this| {
crate::error::to_result(
// SAFETY: We initialized `this.subsystem` according to C API contract above.
unsafe { bindings::configfs_register_subsystem(this.subsystem.get()) },
)?;
- *this.as_mut().project().registered = true;
+ *this.project().registered = true;
Ok(())
})
}
Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg
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2026-08-18 8:11 ` Younes Akhouayri via B4 Relay
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2026-08-18 10:53 ` Andreas Hindborg
2026-08-18 11:00 ` Gary Guo
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