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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	selinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hypfs: free sb->s_fs_info after shutting down the super block
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:37:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230831063710.GG3390869@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230831053157.256319-5-hch@lst.de>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 07:31:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> sb->s_fs_info can only be safely freed after generic_shutdown_super was
> called and all access to the super_block has stopped.
> 
> Thus only free the private data after calling kill_litter_super, which
> calls generic_shutdown_super internally.

Same as for ramfs.  We *do* use ->s_fs_info there, but only for
operations that require an active reference.  They can't overlap
with ->kill_sb().

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-31  5:31 sb->s_fs_info freeing fixes Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31  5:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] ramfs: free sb->s_fs_info after shutting down the super block Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31  6:25   ` Al Viro
2023-08-31  5:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] devpts: " Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31  6:31   ` Al Viro
2023-08-31  5:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] selinuxfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31  6:33   ` Al Viro
2023-08-31  5:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] hypfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31  6:37   ` Al Viro [this message]
2023-08-31 10:20 ` sb->s_fs_info freeing fixes Christian Brauner
2023-08-31 10:29   ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-31 12:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31 13:11       ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-31 14:38         ` Paul Moore
2023-08-31 14:39           ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31 14:49             ` Paul Moore

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