Re: [PATCH 6/9] debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:05:07PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:33:58AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> 
> No changelog text?  :(

Yeah, didn't really know what to say that the Subject didn't already do.

> > +/**
> > + * debugfs_create_str - create a debugfs file that is used to read and write a string value
> > + * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to create.
> > + * @mode: the permission that the file should have
> > + * @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry for this file.  This should be a
> > + *          directory dentry if set.  If this parameter is %NULL, then the
> > + *          file will be created in the root of the debugfs filesystem.
> > + * @value: a pointer to the variable that the file should read to and write
> > + *         from.
> > + *
> > + * This function creates a file in debugfs with the given name that
> > + * contains the value of the variable @value.  If the @mode variable is so
> > + * set, it can be read from, and written to.
> > + *
> > + * This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds.  This
> > + * pointer must be passed to the debugfs_remove() function when the file is
> > + * to be removed (no automatic cleanup happens if your module is unloaded,
> > + * you are responsible here.)  If an error occurs, ERR_PTR(-ERROR) will be
> > + * returned.
> > + *
> > + * NOTE: when writing is enabled it will replace the string, string lifetime is
> > + * assumed to be RCU managed.
> > + *
> > + * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) will
> > + * be returned.
> > + */
> > +struct dentry *debugfs_create_str(const char *name, umode_t mode,
> > +				   struct dentry *parent, char **value)
> 
> Please have this return void, no need for me to have to clean up
> afterward later on :)

That would make it inconsistent with debugfs_create_{bool,blob}() from
which I copiously 'borrowed'.

Also, the return dentry might be useful with debugfs_create_symlink(),
but you're right in that most other create_file wrappers return void.