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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
	 linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	gao xu <gaoxu2@honor.com>,
	 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: do not permit params change after init
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:27:54 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <abEnBEPQDpF6Sgpv@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260310060407.1133800-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>

On (26/03/10 15:01), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> First, algorithm_params_store(), like any sysfs handler,
> should grab device init lock.
> 
> Second, like any write() sysfs handler, it should grab
> device init lock in exclusive mode.
> 
> Third, it should not permit change of algos' parameters
> after device init, as this doesn't make sense - we cannot
> compress with one C/D dict and then just change C/D dict
> to a different one, for example.
> 
> Fixes: 4eac932103a5d ("zram: introduce algorithm_params device attribute")
> Cc: gao xu <gaoxu2@honor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Andrew, I will include this patch into v2 of the zram fixups,
can you please drop it for now?

We need to protect algo lookup path as well, which accesses
->comp_algs.  I'll fix that in v2.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-11  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-10  6:01 [PATCH] zram: do not permit params change after init Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-03-10 14:01 ` Brian Geffon
2026-03-10 14:02   ` Brian Geffon
2026-03-11  8:27 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]

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