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

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:58:18 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	dedekind1@...il.com
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

Am 30.09.2014 08:26, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> 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?

This has nothing do to with the background thread.
Fastmap has a work queue. If one fastmap work has been
scheuled we have to wait for it.

Thanks,
//richard
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