Re: race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write() #2

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:13:06PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:06:41AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> > 
> > > hmm, I guess Greg has to say the final word. The question is either to fail
> > > the IO (-ENODEV) or fail the file removal (-EBUSY). If we are not going to
> > > fail the removal then your patch is the way to go.
> > >
> > > Greg?
> > 
> > Oliver is right that we cannot allow device_remove_file() to fail.  In
> > fact we can't even allow it to block until all the existing open file
> > references are closed.
> > 
> > Our major questions have to do with the details of the patch itself.  In
> > particular, we are worried about possible races with the VFS and the
> > handling of the inode's usage count.  Can you examine the patch carefully
> > to see if it is okay?
> > 
> 
> Sorry for late reply.. I reviewed the patch and it looks ok me.

Thanks for the review.  Oliver, care to resend it to me so I can give it
some testing in the -mm tree?

thanks,

greg k-h