Re: [PATCH 4/5] mtd: Don't unconditionally execute remove notifiers

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Tue,  5 Jul 2016 00:06:22 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:

> Only call them when we're really removing the MTD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> index 36e5fb0..f49e103 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> @@ -499,16 +499,16 @@ int del_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>  		goto out_error;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* No need to get a refcount on the module containing
> -		the notifier, since we hold the mtd_table_mutex */
> -	list_for_each_entry(not, &mtd_notifiers, list)
> -		not->remove(mtd);
> -
>  	if (mtd->usecount) {
>  		printk(KERN_NOTICE "Removing MTD device #%d (%s) with use count %d\n",
>  		       mtd->index, mtd->name, mtd->usecount);
>  		ret = -EBUSY;
>  	} else {
> +		/* No need to get a refcount on the module containing
> +			the notifier, since we hold the mtd_table_mutex */
> +		list_for_each_entry(not, &mtd_notifiers, list)
> +			not->remove(mtd);
> +
>  		device_unregister(&mtd->dev);
>  
>  		idr_remove(&mtd_idr, mtd->index);