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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-24 16:11:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-10-16 09:24:41 -0700 |
| commit | ae87221d3ce49d9de1e43756da834fd0bf05a2ad (patch) | |
| tree | f96792656b00e95c307f3f37369c98a85ce38207 /fs/sysfs | |
| parent | e94320939f44e0cbaccc3f259a5778abced4949c (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/file.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c index c9e4e5091da1..ce8339c70a4b 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)) |