From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on do_floppy_init error handling
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:25:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120810172524.GH5416@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344542391-16474-4-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:59:48PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> After commit 3f9a5aa ("floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling
> put_disk() if add_disk() was never called"), if something fails in the
> add_disk loop, we unconditionally set disks[dr]->queue to NULL. But
> that's wrong, since we may have succesfully done an add_disk on some of
> the drives previously in the loop, and in this case we would end up with
> an extra reference to the disks[dr]->queue.
>
> Add a new global array to mark "registered" disks, and use that to check
> if we did an add_disk on one of the disks already. Using an array to
> track added disks also will help to simplify/cleanup code later, as
> suggested by Vivek Goyal.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Vivek
> ---
> drivers/block/floppy.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 1e09e99..9272203 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static struct floppy_drive_struct drive_state[N_DRIVE];
> static struct floppy_write_errors write_errors[N_DRIVE];
> static struct timer_list motor_off_timer[N_DRIVE];
> static struct gendisk *disks[N_DRIVE];
> +static bool disk_registered[N_DRIVE];
> static struct block_device *opened_bdev[N_DRIVE];
> static DEFINE_MUTEX(open_lock);
> static struct floppy_raw_cmd *raw_cmd, default_raw_cmd;
> @@ -4305,6 +4306,7 @@ static int __init do_floppy_init(void)
> disks[drive]->flags |= GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE;
> disks[drive]->driverfs_dev = &floppy_device[drive].dev;
> add_disk(disks[drive]);
> + disk_registered[drive] = true;
> }
>
> return 0;
> @@ -4328,7 +4330,8 @@ out_put_disk:
> * put_disk() is not paired with add_disk() and
> * will put queue reference one extra time. fix it.
> */
> - disks[dr]->queue = NULL;
> + if (!disk_registered[dr])
> + disks[dr]->queue = NULL;
> }
> put_disk(disks[dr]);
> }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-10 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-09 19:59 Bug fixes/cleanups for floppy driver (v2) Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 1/6] floppy: don't call alloc_ordered_workqueue inside the alloc_disk loop Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-10 17:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 2/6] floppy: do put_disk on current dr if blk_init_queue fails Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-10 17:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on do_floppy_init error handling Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-10 17:25 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2012-08-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 4/6] floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-10 17:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 5/6] floppy: remove check for allocated queue on do_floppy_init error handling Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-10 17:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-13 16:22 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-09 19:59 ` [PATCH 6/6] floppy: use disk_registered for checking if a drive is present Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-10 17:35 ` Vivek Goyal
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