linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] UBI: Ensure that all fastmap work is done upon WL shutdown

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Message-ID: <1412058366.23429.77.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:26:06 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] UBI: Ensure that all fastmap work is done upon WL
 shutdown

On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 00:20 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> ...otherwise the deferred work might run after datastructures
> got freed and corrupt memory.

How can this happend? The background thread is stopped by this time
already, so what are the other possibilities? And why is this
fastmap-only?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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