From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on do_floppy_init error handling
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:03:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814090330.GC2423@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344914439.824.178.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 04:20:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 15:16 -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.
> [...]
>
> It's totally ridiculous that a driver should have to do this. Any
> registered disk should have the GENHD_FL_UP flag set... so why can't
> genhd check it? It doesn't look like floppy is the only driver affected
> by this problem, either. So I suggest the following general fix
> (untested):
>
> ---
> Subject: genhd: Make put_disk() safe for disks that have not been registered
>
> Since commit 9f53d2f ('block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race
> condition'), add_disk() adds a reference to disk->queue,
I do not see this? Commit 9f53d2fe insert disk_alloc_events() to add_disk(),
but disk_alloc_events() function does not get any reference to disk->queue,
I missed something?
Stanislaw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-14 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-13 18:16 Bug fixes/cleanups for floppy driver (v2) Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] floppy: don't call alloc_ordered_workqueue inside the alloc_disk loop Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 2:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] floppy: do put_disk on current dr if blk_init_queue fails Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 2:04 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 19:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-14 20:08 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] floppy: avoid leaking extra reference to queue on do_floppy_init error handling Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 3:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 9:03 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2012-08-14 14:26 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 14:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 14:33 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 3:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-14 14:43 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-27 23:53 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] floppy: use disk_registered for checking if a drive is present Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-14 3:36 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-13 18:16 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] floppy: remove dr, reuse drive on do_floppy_init Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 18:21 ` Bug fixes/cleanups for floppy driver (v2) Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
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