From: Alexey Dobriyan This usually saves one recompile to insert similar printk like below. :) Sample nastygram: remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory '/proc/foo', leaking at least 'bar' ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:776 remove_proc_entry+0x18a/0x200() Modules linked in: foo(-) container fan battery dock sbs ac sbshc backlight ipv6 loop af_packet amd_rng sr_mod i2c_amd8111 i2c_amd756 cdrom i2c_core button thermal processor Pid: 3034, comm: rmmod Tainted: G M 2.6.25-rc1 #5 Call Trace: [] warn_on_slowpath+0x64/0x90 [] printk+0x4e/0x60 [] remove_proc_entry+0x18a/0x200 [] mutex_lock_nested+0x1c8/0x2d0 [] __try_stop_module+0x0/0x40 [] sys_delete_module+0x14d/0x200 [] lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67 [] __up_read+0x27/0xa0 [] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a [] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80 ---[ end trace 10ef850597e89c54 ]--- Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/proc/generic.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-print-more-information-when-removing-non-empty-directories fs/proc/generic.c --- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-print-more-information-when-removing-non-empty-directories +++ a/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -769,7 +769,12 @@ continue_removing: if (S_ISDIR(de->mode)) parent->nlink--; de->nlink = 0; - WARN_ON(de->subdir); + if (de->subdir) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: removing non-empty directory " + "'%s/%s', leaking at least '%s'\n", __func__, + de->parent->name, de->name, de->subdir->name); + WARN_ON(1); + } if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) free_proc_entry(de); break; _