From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
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Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 08:46:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231002064646.GA1799@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230926212515.GN800259@ZenIV>
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:25:15PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Before your patch: foo_kill_super() calls kill_anon_super(),
> which calls kill_super_notify(), which removes the sucker from
> the list, then frees ->s_fs_info. After your patch:
> removal from the lists happens via the call of kill_super_notify()
> *after* both of your methods had been called, while freeing
> ->s_fs_info happens from the method call. IOW, you've restored
> the situation prior to "super: ensure valid info". The whole
> point of that commit had been to make sure that we have nothing
> in the lists with ->s_fs_info pointing to a freed object.
>
> It's not about free_anon_bdev(); that part is fine - it's the
> "we can drop the weird second call site of kill_super_notify()"
> thing that is broken.
The point has been to only release the anon dev_t after
kill_super_notify, to prevent two of them beeing reused.
Which we do as the free_anon_bdev is done directly in
deactivate_locked_super. The new ->free_sb for non-block file systems
frees resources, but none of them matter for sget.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-02 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-13 11:09 split up ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` [PATCH 01/19] fs: reflow deactivate_locked_super Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 16:35 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-13 16:35 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-26 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` [PATCH 02/19] fs: make ->kill_sb optional Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 23:27 ` Al Viro
2023-09-13 23:27 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 2:37 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 2:37 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 5:38 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 5:38 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 7:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-14 7:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-26 9:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 9:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-14 14:02 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-14 14:02 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-14 16:58 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 16:58 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 19:23 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 19:23 ` Al Viro
2023-09-15 7:40 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 7:40 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 9:44 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 9:44 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 14:12 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 14:12 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 14:28 ` Al Viro
2023-09-15 14:28 ` Al Viro
2023-09-15 14:33 ` Al Viro
2023-09-15 14:33 ` Al Viro
2023-09-15 14:40 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15 14:40 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-26 9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 21:25 ` Al Viro
2023-09-27 22:29 ` Al Viro
2023-10-02 6:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-10-09 21:57 ` Al Viro
2023-10-10 8:44 ` Christian Brauner
2023-10-17 19:50 ` Al Viro
2023-09-13 11:09 ` [PATCH 04/19] NFS: remove the s_dev field from struct nfs_server Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` [PATCH 05/19] fs: assign an anon dev_t in common code Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-14 0:34 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 0:34 ` Al Viro
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 06/19] qibfs: use simple_release_fs Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-18 11:41 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-09-18 11:41 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 07/19] hypfs: use d_genocide to kill fs entries Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 08/19] pstore: shrink the pstore_sb_lock critical section in pstore_kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2023-09-13 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 09/19] zonefs: remove duplicate cleanup in zonefs_fill_super Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-14 0:33 ` Damien Le Moal
2023-09-14 0:33 ` Damien Le Moal
2023-09-14 0:49 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 0:49 ` Al Viro
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 10/19] USB: gadget/legacy: remove sb_mutex Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 16:10 ` Alan Stern
2023-09-13 16:10 ` Alan Stern
2023-09-26 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-26 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-14 10:22 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-09-14 10:22 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 11/19] fs: add new shutdown_sb and free_sb methods Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-14 2:07 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 2:07 ` Al Viro
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 12/19] fs: convert kill_litter_super to litter_shutdown_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2023-09-13 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 13/19] fs: convert kill_block_super to block_free_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-14 2:29 ` Al Viro
2023-09-14 2:29 ` Al Viro
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 14/19] jffs2: convert to ->shutdown_sb and ->free_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 15/19] kernfs: split ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-18 15:24 ` Michal Koutný
2023-09-18 15:24 ` Michal Koutný
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 16/19] x86/resctrl: release rdtgroup_mutex and the CPU hotplug lock in rdt_shutdown_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 17/19] NFS: move nfs_kill_super to fs_context.c Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 18/19] fs: simple ->shutdown_sb and ->free_sb conversions Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` [PATCH 19/19] fs: remove ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-13 11:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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