linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ses: Fix racy cleanup of /sys in remove

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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:45:05 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ses: Fix racy cleanup of /sys in remove_dev()

On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 21:23 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > > > > > "Calvin" == Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com> writes:
> 
> > > Any thoughts? Squinting at this more it still seems racy, but a
> > > narrow race is surely better than just blatantly freeing
> > > everything
> > > while the file is still exposed in /sys? Is there a better way
> > > you'd
> > > prefer I accomplish this?
> > > 
> > > (I have boxes that OOPS all the time from monitoring code reading
> > > the
> > > /sys files, with this patch I haven't seen a single one.)
> 
> Calvin> Ping? Thoughts, comments?
> 
> James: This is your puppy...

I thought it would be bigger by now going by the early paw size
indicator ...

Anyway

Reviewed-by: James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

James