linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] NFSD: notifiers registration cleanup

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:35:31 +0300
From:   Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Scott Mayhew <smayhew@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NFSD: notifiers registration cleanup

On 21.09.2016 16:20, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Good catch. I'm not very fond of the refcounting this here but it
> should
> serve the purpose and I don't have anything better to suggest. FWIW, I
> think the nfsd_mutex is held during all of these operations so we
> probably don't need atomics for the refcount.

I've copied idea from netfilters,
look at using of masquerade_notifier_refcount

Perhaps someday in future we'll replace all such cases by some common primitive.