From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
hch@infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] block: first batch of add_disk() error handling conversions
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 06:30:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YS8QB2qw3sQXU4Yu@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc6470a2-7e32-c582-2c45-1358d3f6de1b@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:19:44PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Are the changes by add_disk() made atomically against the caller?
> If there is a moment where "struct block_device_operations"->open can be
> called when add_disk() might still fail, how is it protected from the
> kfree() path?
The new add_disk is structured so tht it won't fail after the block
device inode is hashed. That is, the last possible failure is before
->open can be called.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-30 21:25 [PATCH v3 0/8] block: first batch of add_disk() error handling conversions Luis Chamberlain
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] scsi/sd: add error handling support for add_disk() Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:13 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-09-07 1:29 ` Ming Lei
2021-09-13 17:21 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] scsi/sr: " Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:13 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-09-07 1:37 ` Ming Lei
2021-09-13 17:26 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] nvme: " Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:16 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-09-06 8:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-06 8:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] mmc/core/block: " Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 17:10 ` Ulf Hansson
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] md: " Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:17 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] dm: add add_disk() error handling Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:19 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] loop: add error handling support for add_disk() Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:19 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-08-30 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] nbd: " Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-06 6:20 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-09-01 4:19 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] block: first batch of add_disk() error handling conversions Tetsuo Handa
2021-09-01 5:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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