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Re: [PATCH] ses: Fix racy cleanup of /sys in remove_dev()

Started by"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
First post2016-07-29 03:30 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH] ses: Fix racy cleanup of /sys in remove_dev() "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-07-29 03:30 +0200

#1452201 — Re: [PATCH] ses: Fix racy cleanup of /sys in remove_dev()

From"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Date2016-07-29 03:30 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH] ses: Fix racy cleanup of /sys in remove_dev()
Message-ID<s04MF-63R-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
>>>>> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> writes:

>> Any thoughts? Squinting at this more it still seems racy, but a
>> narrow race is surely better than just blatantly freeing everything
>> while the file is still exposed in /sys? Is there a better way you'd
>> prefer I accomplish this?
>> 
>> (I have boxes that OOPS all the time from monitoring code reading the
>> /sys files, with this patch I haven't seen a single one.)

Calvin> Ping? Thoughts, comments?

James: This is your puppy...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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