From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
tj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, minchan@kernel.org,
jeyu@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, bvanassche@acm.org,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, joe@perches.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
keescook@chromium.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/12] zram: fix crashes with cpu hotplug multistate
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:30:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YW7yjQVC4NRfrWxD@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YW7xbnrqfzifa9OC@kroah.com>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 06:25:18PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 08:50:24AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > So do you want to take the position:
> >
> > Hey driver authors: you cannot use any shared lock on module removal and
> > on sysfs ops?
>
> Yes, I would not recommend using such a lock at all. sysfs operations
> happen on a per-device basis, so you can lock the device structure.
All devices are going to be removed on module removal and so cannot be locked.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-19 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 16:37 [PATCH v8 00/12] syfs: generic deadlock fix with module removal Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 01/12] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license Luis Chamberlain
[not found] ` <202110050907.35FBD2A1@keescook>
[not found] ` <YWR2ZrtzChamY1y4@bombadil.infradead.org>
2021-10-11 17:57 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 02/12] testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 16:11 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 03/12] selftests: add tests_sysfs module Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 14:16 ` Greg KH
2021-10-05 16:57 ` Tim.Bird
2021-10-11 17:40 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-11 17:38 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-07 14:23 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-11 19:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
[not found] ` <202110050912.3DF681ED@keescook>
2021-10-11 19:03 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 04/12] kernfs: add initial failure injection support Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:47 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 20:44 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 05/12] test_sysfs: add support to use kernfs failure injection Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:51 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 20:56 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 06/12] kernel/module: add documentation for try_module_get() Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:58 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 21:16 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 07/12] fs/kernfs/symlink.c: replace S_IRWXUGO with 0777 on kernfs_create_link() Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:59 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 08/12] fs/sysfs/dir.c: replace S_IRWXU|S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO with 0755 sysfs_create_dir_ns() Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 16:05 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 09/12] sysfs: fix deadlock race with module removal Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 9:24 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-11 21:25 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-12 0:20 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-12 21:18 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-13 1:07 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-13 12:35 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-13 15:04 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-13 21:16 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 20:50 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 22:26 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-13 12:41 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 10/12] test_sysfs: enable deadlock tests by default Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 11/12] zram: fix crashes with cpu hotplug multistate Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 20:55 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 18:27 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-14 1:55 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-14 2:11 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-14 20:24 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-14 23:52 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-15 0:22 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-15 8:36 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-15 8:52 ` Greg KH
2021-10-15 17:31 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-16 11:28 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-18 19:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 2:34 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 6:23 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-19 9:23 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-20 6:43 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-20 7:49 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-20 8:19 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-20 8:28 ` Greg KH
2021-10-25 9:58 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-20 10:09 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-26 8:48 ` Petr Mladek
2021-10-26 15:37 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-26 17:01 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-27 11:57 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-27 14:27 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-11-02 15:24 ` Petr Mladek
2021-11-02 16:25 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-11-03 0:01 ` Ming Lei
2021-11-03 12:44 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-27 11:42 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-11-02 14:15 ` Petr Mladek
2021-11-02 14:51 ` Petr Mladek
2021-11-02 15:17 ` Ming Lei
2021-11-02 14:56 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 15:28 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 16:29 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 19:36 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-20 1:15 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-20 15:48 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-21 0:39 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-21 17:18 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-22 0:05 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 15:50 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 16:25 ` Greg KH
2021-10-19 16:30 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2021-10-19 17:28 ` Greg KH
2021-10-19 19:46 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 16:39 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 19:38 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-20 0:55 ` Ming Lei
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 12/12] zram: use ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS to fix sysfs deadlock module removal Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 20:57 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 18:28 ` Luis Chamberlain
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