linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: fix umount-reset

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 23:15:25 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: fix umount-reset_store-mount race condition

Hello,

On (02/03/15 22:05), Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> >         zram->disksize = 0;
> > -       if (reset_capacity)
> > -               set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
> 
> How about keep this here? Protected by zram->init_lock.
>            set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);

why?

	-ss
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