linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on do_floppy

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:26:53 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on
 do_floppy_init error handling

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:03:30AM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 04:20:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > It's totally ridiculous that a driver should have to do this.  Any
> > registered disk should have the GENHD_FL_UP flag set... so why can't
> > genhd check it?  It doesn't look like floppy is the only driver affected
> > by this problem, either.  So I suggest the following general fix
> > (untested):
> > 
> > ---
> > Subject: genhd: Make put_disk() safe for disks that have not been registered
> > 
> > Since commit 9f53d2f ('block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race
> > condition'), add_disk() adds a reference to disk->queue,
> 
> I do not see this? Commit 9f53d2fe insert disk_alloc_events() to add_disk(),
> but disk_alloc_events() function does not get any reference to disk->queue,
> I missed something?

I think he meant commit 523e1d3 ("block: make gendisk hold a reference
to its queue") instead.

> 
> Stanislaw
> 

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