From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] configfs: Pin configfs subsystems separately from new config_items.
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:10:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080623191027.GF592@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080623154457.GW30804@localhost>
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:44:57PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> make_item()
> new_item = kmalloc();
> config_item_init_type_long_name();
> return new_item;
>
> drop_item(item)
> config_item_put(item);
> kfree(item);
This is never, ever safe. Consider that someone has an
attribute file open - it has a reference to the item. You can still
rmdir() the item - doing stuff to the attribute after drop_item() will
just get ignored. But you can't free it in drop_item().
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-17 22:41 [RFC] configfs: Pin configfs subsystems separately from new config_items Joel Becker
2008-06-18 12:31 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Louis Rilling
2008-06-18 16:12 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-18 16:51 ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-18 20:07 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-19 11:13 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Louis Rilling
2008-06-19 22:07 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-20 12:46 ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-20 22:36 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-23 15:44 ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-23 19:10 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-06-24 5:04 ` Louis Rilling
2008-06-24 17:03 ` Joel Becker
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