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From: "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
To: "dan.j.williams@intel.com" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 19:31:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499023372.2042.1.camel@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149892424300.37698.9888818880178611728.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 08:50 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> We need to hold a reference on the 'dirent' until we are sure there
> are no more notifications that will be sent. As noted in the new
> comments we take advantage of the fact that the references are taken
> and dropped under device_lock() and that nd_device_notify() holds
> device_lock() over new badblocks notifications. The notifications
> that happen when badblocks are cleared only occur while the device is
> active.
> 
> Also take the opportunity to fix up the error messages to report the
> user visible effect of a sysfs_get_dirent() failure.
> 
> Fixes: 975750a98c26 ("libnvdimm, pmem: Add sysfs notifications to
> badblocks")
> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>

Thanks Dan!
-Toshi

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-02 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-01 15:50 [PATCH] libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime Dan Williams
2017-07-02 19:31 ` Kani, Toshimitsu [this message]

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