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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sboyd@kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 ] devcoredump : Serialize devcd_del work
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:19:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8186de033c87f0cdec296ae272a72c5b9a2880a3.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87levt14kn.ffs@tglx>

On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 19:00 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Johannes, can you please explain whether this immediate flush in
> disabled_store() is really required and if so, why?
> 

I don't really know, as I remember that requirement (or maybe even code,
not sure) came from Kees, who needed the lockdown.

Given the use case (ChromeOS?) I'm not sure I see a need to flush all of
them, since I guess a typical system would set the lockdown early in
boot and hopefully not have a crash-dump around already.


That said, I don't think the diagram you made works - fn() during the
iteration is guaranteed to be invoked with a reference of its own, so
the put_device() there can't be the last reference, only as fn() returns
you'd put the last reference *there*, freeing it.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-25 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-25 13:09 Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-25 14:06 ` Greg KH
2022-04-25 17:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-25 17:19   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2022-04-25 19:37     ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-26 14:04       ` Mukesh Ojha
2022-04-26 21:25         ` Kees Cook
2022-04-27 11:58           ` Johannes Berg

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