Re: [PATCH] zram: fix umount-reset_store-mount race condition

[Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>]

On (02/03/15 23:52), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (02/03/15 23:15), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > How about keep this here? Protected by zram->init_lock.
> > >            set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
> > 
> > why?
> > 
> yeah, I see why. good catch.
> 
> hm, why do we perform destroy_device() before zram_reset_device() in
> zram_exit()?
> 
> how about doing something like this (I don't want to return 
> that bool param back):

disregard the last one.


this is done to remove sysfs before we do reset, so we don't race module
unload with `echo 2G > /.../disksize', f.e.

well, several options:

1) move ->init_lock from zram_reset_device() to its callers.
   iow, do

	down_write(&zram->init_lock);
	zram_reset_device(zram);
	up_write(&zram->init_lock);

2) remove sysfs group separate, before zram_reset_device() in
   zram_exit()

	sysfs_remove_group()
	zram_reset_device();
	destroy_device();

3) return back bool reset_capacity to zram_reset_device(). but this one
   is somewhat ungly. destroy() before reset() loks misleading, besides,
   after destroy() in zram_reset_device() we
      /*
       * Shouldn't access zram->disk after destroy_device
       * because destroy_device already released zram->disk.
       */

   so we have garbaged ->disk pointer there, which is quite unsafe.

	-ss