linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] blk-mq: Fix use after of free q->mq

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:43:36 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] blk-mq: Fix use after of free q->mq_map

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:50:47AM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2015-09-29 15:52 GMT+09:00 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>:
> > Looks good,
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> >
> > Can you also add a patch that renames blk_mq_free_queue to
> > blk_mq_cleaup_queue and adds a comment that we should not free any memory
> > here?  We had  way too many bugs of this kinds unfortunately.
> 
> Renaming blk_mq_free_queue to blk_mq_cleaup_queue sounds good because
> it is called from blk_cleanup_queue().
> 
> How about adding comment like below?

This looks great.  It's a lot more than what I though but it looks correct
and useful!
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